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 _Horæ Decanicæ Rurales_, vol. i., p. 426.,
ed. 1844, which refers also to Blomefield's _Norfolk_, vol. iv. p. 63.:

"A.D. 1686. The dean of the deanery of the city of Norwich was
committed to custody, on one occasion, by the itinerant justices, for
exacting _hallidays toll_ by his sub-dean in too high a manner; but on
his proving that he took of every great boat that came up to the city
on a holiday 1d. only, and of each small one a _halfpenny_; of every
cart 1d., and of every horse or man laden an _halfpenny_; and of all
bakers, butchers, and fishmongers, that sold their commodities on a
holiday, 1d. each; and that his predecessors always had immemorially
taken it, he was discharged.--Something of the same kind is related, in
T. Martin's MS. history, respecting the dues exacted by the rural dean
of Thetford. Dr. Sutton's MS. Letter."