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Excerpt from Wayman Wills and Administrations: Preserved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1821
It is necessary to a correct understanding to brie?y state the procedure following upon the dying con fession. After absolution, when the sick man was in extremis, the last rites of the church were administered. During his last moments the passing bell was tolled, and directly after his decease a solemn commendation of his soul to God followed. The death bell was then rung, the strokes indicating the age and sex of the departed. Commendation of the departed was followed by a Litany and prayer for the repose of his soul, recited either in the death chamber or the hall of his dwelling. On the evening before the funeral Vespers for the dead were recited. This office was generally known as placebo, from the first word of the Antiphon I shall please the Lord in the land of the living (ps. Cxvi. The Service was said or sung after the body had been placed before some side altar in the parish church, where it lay covered with a pall and surrounded by six or eight wax lights.
On the following morning at service of Matins, the Dirige, so called from the Antiphon, Make thy way plain before my face (ps. V. Was rendered in like manner. The bells of the church were tolled before the funeral, which took place after the Requiem Mass had been sung. The inhumation followed. It was succeeded by a final peal On the bells. The Trental or Month's Mind then began, and its Masses followed thirty consecutive days. Finally, the obit and anniversary with special Masses were said monthly and yearly.
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