medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Laura,
On Sunday, February 15, 2009, at 2:45 pm, you wrote:
> > 'Item grossos Venetos XVIII causa desepelliendi dominum ..........,
> cum
> > fuerunt accepta vestimenta sua'
> >
> > which I translate as something like
> >
> > '16 Venetian groats for his exhumation, since his vestimenta are accepted'
> >
Better, '18 Venetian groats ..., since his vestimenta were accepted'
Possibly the 'vestimenta' were not a fee but rather a donation in kind (made at the time of his death)?
For an eighteenth-century example of 'vestimenta' in a church not signifying articles of apparel cf. the record of such a donation to the church of St Andrew at Fersfield, a little more than halfway down the page here (set your browser to find Vestimenta):
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=77098
Best,
John Dillon
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