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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frankalmoigne \Frank`al*moigne"\, n. [F. franc free + Norm. F.
     almoigne alma, for almosne, F. aum[^o]ne. See {Frank}, a.,
     and {Almoner}.] (Eng. Law)
     A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given
     to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of
     praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called


     also {tenure by free alms}. --Burrill.
     [1913 Webster]

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  FRANKALMOIGNE, n.  The tenure by which a religious corporation holds
  lands on condition of praying for the soul of the donor.  In mediaeval
  times many of the wealthiest fraternities obtained their estates in
  this simple and cheap manner, and once when Henry VIII of England sent
  an officer to confiscate certain vast possessions which a fraternity
  of monks held by frankalmoigne, "What!" said the Prior, "would you
  master stay our benefactor's soul in Purgatory?"  "Ay," said the
  officer, coldly, "an ye will not pray him thence for naught he must
  e'en roast."  "But look you, my son," persisted the good man, "this
  act hath rank as robbery of God!"  "Nay, nay, good father, my master
  the king doth but deliver him from the manifold temptations of too
  great wealth."
  
  

















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