A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

NOTHING is said as to what was the special occasion on which the following repetitions were to be made; there is nothing else on the page.

In the worchepe of god and of owre lady and [folio 78b] of all the holy Cumpany, he shall sey xv pater nosters, xv aves, and iij credys.

Also ye must sey in the worchepe of Seynt Ramayn and Seynt Barbera, Seynt Symond and Seynt Mawtholde, xv paternosters, xv aues, and iij credys; and thes must be seyd v tymys, that is, to nyte onnys, and to morow in the mornyng ageyn, and to-morow at nyte ageyn, and the nest day in the mornyng ageyn, and the nest day at nyte onnys; and ther is all.

A TRENTAL was an office of thirty masses, three of a sort, which were said for the dead, to deliver their souls from torment, according to Canon Rock on the burial day; low masses were said in the side chapels, and at all the altars in the church: a trental of masses used to be offered up for almost every one on the burial day." [Church of our Fathers, vol. ii. p. 504.] Be|quests were frequently made for the saying or singing of trentals. " In 1480 John Meryell left . . . to the friars of Babwell, to pray for his soul a trental of masses, xs." [Cullum's History of Hawsted, 2nd ed., p. 16.] Sometimes a yearly trental, or tricenarium, was said for departed brethren. See examples from early times in Ducange, s.v. trentale, and tricenarium.

The masses of the trental appear to have been performed, sometimes all on the one day, sometimes on thirty separate days, one each on three days within the octaves of each of the ten feasts; and to the proper mass for the day might be added the Dirige (or morning