DOMINICALS

I believe to have been that kind of customary payment or oblations made *on Sundays* to the rector, or his vicegerent, of the church where a person heard divine service and received the sacraments: "Hostiensis dicit quod in præcipuis festivitatibus tenetur quis offerre, et *cogi potest*; maximè cum sit quasi *generalis consuetudo ubique terrarum* ... et intelligit festivitates præcipuas, *dies Dominicos*, et alios dies festivos."—Lyndwood, *Prov.*, p. 21., not. e., ed. Oxon. 1679. Though Lyndwood himself, as I understand him, seems to doubt the cardinal's statement, that the payment could be *…