The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
tolling of the passing bell [doble], the cura shall ask four reals
for the eighths [de octava], for the sacristy or the church.
Fees of the sacristans: For aiding at nuptial masses and the
benediction, [26] the sacristan shall ask for each two reals. The
sacristan may ask for carrying the processional cross with its veil,
[27] for any burial, ten reals; and if afterward solemn mass be sung,
he shall ask eighteen reals for the burial, and a peso for assisting
at the mass; and if the cross be placed on the grave on the day of the
funeral, he shall ask a peso. For the small cross carried, without
its casing, and made of silver, he shall ask six reals; and for the
ordinary cross of wood he shall ask two; and, if the deceased were
the slave of an Indian, he shall ask one real. For burning incense
at the funerals, when the parties ask for it, the sacristan shall
ask two reals; and at the solemn masses he shall ask another two
reals. For assisting at each anniversary mass founded in this church,
which the cura says, the sacristan shall ask one peso. The sacristan
is under obligation to assist the cura in the administration of the
holy sacraments, and in the other matters pertaining to the ministry,
as being his assistant; and if he fail in rendering such aid he shall
ask only the half [of the usual fees], and the other half the cura
shall divide between the person who shall assist in the sacristan's
place and the church fund for its sacristy. Either the sacristan or
in his place some person not yet ordained, is under obligation to
carry the cross at burials.
Singers: When the entire choir shall be summoned to any burial,
they shall ask ten pesos for attending it; and if all the said choir
assist at mass and the office for the dead [vigilia], they shall ask
another ten pesos. When the [individual] singers shall go on call to
any funeral, no more of them shall go than those who are asked for by
the parties; and each singer shall ask one real. This is understood
when they go not as a full choir, but in a group of three; and they
shall not oblige the parties to give them candles, but may take these
when the parties choose to give them. If only three singers assist
at mass and the office for the dead, they shall ask three pesos for
the mass, but not for the office.
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