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Parson mortal [fr. persona mortalis, Lat.], a rector instituted and inducted for his own life. But any collegiate or conventual body, to whom a church was for ever appropriated, was termed persona immortalis, Jac. Law Dict....
Bills of mortality
Bills of mortality, returns of the deaths which occur within a certain district.It was with the view of communicating to the inhabitants of London, to the Court, and the constituted authorities of the city, accurate information respecting the increase or decrease in the number of deaths and the casualties of mortality occurring amongst them, that the bills of mortality were commenced in London after a visitation of the plague in 1592, but they were not continued uninterruptedly until the occurrence of another plague in 1603, from which period, up to the present time, they have been continued from week to week; excepting during the Great Fire, when the deaths of two or three weeks were given in one bill.In 1605, the parishes comprised within the bills of mortality included the 97 parishes within the walls, 16 parishes without the walls, and six contiguous out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey.In 1626, the city of Westminster was included in the bills; in 1636, the parishes of Islington, ...
Parson
Parson [fr. persona, Lat., because the parson omnium personam in ecclesi' sustinet; or from parochianus, the parish-priest.--Johnson; anciently written persone.--Todd], 'the rector of a church parochiall' (Co. Litt. 300 a); one that has a parochial charge or cure of souls. 'The most legal, most beneficial, and most honourable title that a parish priest can enjoy,' says Sir W. Blackstone.A parson has the freehold for life of the parsonage-house, the glebe, the tithes, and other dues. But these are sometimes appropriated, that is to say, the benefice is perpetually annexed to some spiritual corporation, either sole or aggregate, being the patron of the living; which the law esteems equally capable of providing for the service of the church as any single private clergyman: see 1 Bl. Com. 384. Many appropriations, however, are now in the hands of lay persons, who are usually styled, by way of distinction, lay impropriators. In all appro-priations there is generally a spiritual person attac...
Mortally
In a mortal manner so as to cause death as mortally wounded...
Mortalness
Quality of being mortal mortality...
Mortality
Mortality. See BILLS OF MORTALITY....
Mortal
Subject to death destined to die as man is mortal...
Mortality
The condition or quality of being mortal subjection to death or to the necessity of dying...
Mortalize
To make mortal...
Parsoned
Furnished with a parson...
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