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 praecipuis festivitatibus tenetur quis offerre, et _cogi potest_; maxime cum sit quasi _generalis consuetudo ubique terrarum_ ... et intelligit festivitates praecipuas, _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 _enforced_, unless sanctioned by local custom. Ducange, in v. "Denarius," 8vo. ed., Adel. 1774, says, the "Denarius de Palma" and "Denarius Dominicalis" were the same: "Habebit (vicarius) cum eis victum suum competentem, et ad vestes sibi emendas XL. solidos Andegavenses, et _Denarium singulis diebus Dominicis ecclesiastica consuetudine offerendum_." On this extract from a charter he observes: "Erat itaque _Denarius de Palma_, ille qui singulis Diebus Dominicis et [lege a] fidelibus offerrebatur. Cur autem dictus 'de Palma' non constat, nisi forte sic dictus fuerit quod in manum seu _palmam_ traderetur." _Denarius Dominicalis_, idem.--Arest. MS. a. 1407. It would seem also from his definition to be the same as the payment called "Denaria Sacramentorum," that is: "iidem denarii qui _singulis offerrebantur Dominicis_, ideoque Sacramentorum dicti, quod tempore Sacrosancti Missae Sacrificii, pro excellentia interdum nude appellati Sacramentum, a fidelibus offerrentur."--_Annal. Bened._, t. iv. p. 466., n. 80. ad annum 1045. These extracts sufficiently explain, perhaps, the payment known by the different names of "Dominicals," "Palm-penny," and "Sacrament-pence;" and still indicated, probably, by the weekly offertory of our communion service. Of a kindred nature were the "Denarii pro Requestis," or "Denarii perquisiti," sometimes also {26} called "Denarii memoriales," pence paid for masses in memory of the dead: called "pro requestis," because they were obtained by special petition [requesta] from the curate; and "perquisiti," "perquisite pence," because they were demanded [perquirebantur] from the devotion of the parishioners, over and above the customary offerings. And in this, perhaps, we find the origin of our word "perquisite." (Lyndw. _Prov._ p. 111., notes c, e. and p. 237.) In further illustration of this subject, I will quote the following note from Mr. Dansey's learned work _Horae Decanicae Rurales_, vol. i., p. 426., ed. 1844, which refers also to Blomefield's _Norfolk_, vol. iv. p. 63.: