Author: BRUITSMA D. - Grand Conseil de Malines - Grote Raad van Mechelen - Vonnis 5 Juni 1677 :
Title: Sentences concernantes les Droicts des Funerailles en la Ville de Malines, rendues au Grand Conseil...le 24 Dec. 1668 ; le 18 Mars 1669 ; le 26 Mars & 24 Dec. 1676 & le 5 Juin 1677.
Description: .: Malines ( Mechelen ) , chez Jean Jaye, Imprimeur juré, small in-4°, 20 x 14 cm, 36 pp ( irregular page numbering: pp. 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14(blank), 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 (blank), are unnumbered. Bound in a later half cloth binding, pp.3/4 loose, title page with some thumbing. With the printed ex-libris of the Mechelen printer Willy Godenne. Rare court judgement of a lawsuit between the municipal authorities of Mechelen and the Roman Catholic church on the procedures and costs of funerals. A funeral was obviously a very complicated and strictly regulated business in the 17th c. Roman Catholic Netherlands. The document ends with a new regulation ( 12 pp !) stipulating at least 5 classes of funerals. A 1st class funeral involves the payment of 45 ( ! ) different invoices for 45 different funeral activities. .

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