ALTARAGE

• The fees received by a priest from the laity when discharging any function for them, e.g. marriages, baptisms, funerals

    Altarage

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    From the low Latin altaragium, which signified the revenue reserved for the chaplain (altarist or altar-thane) in contradistinction to the income of the parish priest. At present it signifies the fees received by a priest from the laity when discharging any function for them, e.g. at marriages, baptisms, funerals. It is also termed honorarium, stipend, stole-fee.

    A.J. SCHULTE

    Transcribed by Michael C. Tinkler