English gilds : the original ordinances of more than one hundred early English gilds : together with The olde Usages of the cite of Wynchestre; the Ordinances of Worcester; the Office of the Mayor of Bristol; and the Costomary of the Manor of Tettenhall-Regis : from manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
edited, with notes, by Toulmin Smith
De Officio circa corpora defunctorum.
All becoming services shall be done on the death of any brother, or of the wife of any Page 267 brother, whether within or without the town. And the Aldermen, Stewards, Dean, and bretheren shall be present at those services.*. [This ordinance is very long, and goes into much and curious detail. It is remarkable that it recalls and provides for the contingency of the gild having no chaplain of its own. See before, under "De Capellano celebraturo,"and the note thereto.]
