OFFERINGS, OBLATIONS, and OBVENTIONS, are not only those mall cuetornary sums paid at Easter, but also the customary payments for marriages, eliriatenings, churchings, and burials. By tr. S.. 3 Ed. VI. e. 13, "all pot-none which by the laws and customs might to make or pay their offerings, Alaih yearly well and truly content and pay the same to tlao parson, vicar, proprietor, or their deputies al fanners, of the !wristlet where they shall dwell or abide; and that al such four offeringslays aro at any time heretofore within the space four years last peat bath been need and accustomed for the payment o the 'mune ; and, in default thereof, to pay for the maid offerings al Laster then next following." The four offering days above spoken o were Christman, Easter, NVhitatintide, and the feast of the dedientior of the parish church. It is directed by the rubric, at the end of the Communion Service, that " yearly at Easter, every parishioner [that reckon with the parson, vicar, or emirate, or his or their deputy o: deputies, and pay to them or him all ecclesiastical duties accustomabl; duo than at that time to be paid." Easter offerings are clue of common
right, as well as by custom. (thinly. 173, 198.) Thus, in Cartlmew Elweoln, Trio. 1749, in the Exchequer, it was held that Enete: offerings were duo of common right, after the rate of 2d. ahead fo: very person in the family of sixteen years of age and upwards. But my custom the sum may be more. In London 4d. n-head is usually l aimed.
Surplice-fees are payable for every marriage, whether by banns or teepee; and for every funeral, churching, or christening, according to he custom of the parish. Mortuaries are claimed on the death of each *mon In a pariah, according to value of property left, but not to a treater amount than 10s.
(Burn, Ecclesiastical lam; Blackat., Comm., Mr. ICerr'a ed. vol. iii., 7.)