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Court of common pleas: The National Archives, CP40
… of the fraternity is carried to the church at evensong ('placebo'), dirge or mass, receiving for his service 2s 8d …
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… versarium) on Thursday and Friday in Easter week, with Placebo and Dirige and obsequies of the dead after nones ( …
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… London; to Sibyl daughter of Lucy, his best psalter, and placebo and dirige, &c. 56 [Henry III.]. Two seals. Endorsed: …
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… convent that they will celebrate their anniversaries with placebo, dirige, and a mass for them and for John and Agnes, …
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… the grantees may celebrate yearly a mass de Requiem cum placebo et dirige for the souls of the grantor and Elizabeth …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… in the church of Attleburgh, by Sir Thomas Mortimer, with placebo, dirge, and messe, by note, for the soul of the said …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… every year one Mass should be solemnly celebrated, with Placebo and Dirige, on the day of his death (or obit) as for …
The medieval records of a London City church
… lead, 166, 168, 370. Pistelarie, n. Epistle book, 27. Placebo, 6, 11, 15, 17, 25, etc. "A term to designate the old … for the dead, so called because the antiphon commenced in placebo."(Lee's Glossary.) Places in text, list of …
Lincoln Wills
… place on the evening before the funeral-day, was known as Placebo, because the office began with the antiphon Placebo Domino in regione vivorum (Psalm cxvi, 9, in Book of … obits on pages 1534. In one case the testator directs that Placebo and Dirige are to be done in his house where his body …
Calendar of State Papers, Ireland
… priest say the word, the plowman obeyeth. Say but dirige, placebo will follow. Let the priest say, exaltabo, the …