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† corse-present Obs.
Also corps(e-presand, -ant, -aunt, -prisaunt, -aunce.
A customary gift due to the clergy from the chattels of a householder at his death and burial; a mortuary.
1393Test. Ebor. (Surtees) I. 185, I wyte for my corspresent the best garment that I for my body ordand. 1497Ibid. IV. 124 My best horse, with bridell, sadill, and oder apparell, in the name of my mortuary corspresand. 1529Act 21 Hen. VIII, c. 6 Mortuaries, otherwise called corse presentes. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 4479 He did nocht bid thame seik nor craif Cors presentis nor offerandis. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 120 a, The parson and vicar wyll haue for a mortuary or a coarse present the best thynge that is about the house. 1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 459 Mortuaries..because they were usually represented with the corpse at the burial, were therefore called corpse-presents. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 425 It was antiently usual in this kingdom to bring the mortuary to church along with the corpse when it came to be buried; and thence it is sometimes called a corse-present. 1777Brand Pop. Antiq. (1870) II. 199. 1882 Furnivall E.E. Wills 139 Sometimes called Mortuary, Corse-present, or Foredrove. |