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by commiffion ; viz. an office to ie cad king in the thing 
sa venkat into; and an office o 
OFFI is alfo ufed for cvine fervc ete in public. 
St. leo is the perfon, who, e requeft of pope 
mafus, is faid te have firft aaeibuted the Pfalms, Epittles, 
and Gofpels, in the order in which they are now found in 
the Romifh office. The popes Gregory and Gelafius added 
the prayers, ea =" verfes; and St. Ambrofe the 
graduals, hallelujahs, 
FFICE is more ey ufed, in the Romith church, 
- the manner of performing the fervice ; which varies 
Re 
ay ie fay the ‘office of Sunday; the office of fuch a 
faint, &c. The office is either fingle, half-double, or double. 
OFFICE, again, is applied to a particular prayer. preferred 
in honour o t 
any perfon is omnes a particular ae is at 
the fame time affigned him of the commen office of 
the aan the Virgin, or aa like. See Saint Pend 
Canonl 
We tas aie office of the Virgin ; of the Holy Spirit ; of 
the patfion ; the holy facrament, &c. The office of the dead 
is rehearfed every day, excepting on feaft-days, among the 
Carthufians. The office of the oe Virgin is alfo added 
to the ae of the day, in the ord Bernardines. 
FFICES, with regard to Architeélure, denote all the apast- 
ments at ferve for pal iaiagat — ns of a Sti houfe, 
ihc rvants are employed: as 
"eonfedlionarice. fruiteries, 
granaries, &c. a fo w afh- houfes, wood-houfes, ftables, &c. 
The offices are commonly in the baffecour ; fometimes 
they are as under Sache and well a 
eral name of any fort 
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produce, or other things belonging to the 
points to be aimed at in ee of this ad are thofe of 
See Farm-Buipincs. 
OFrrFi 
» in his work 
on landed property * aye it thould be fituated under the roof 
the Pr rincipal refden nce of the pro prictor, round which 
ape mott] Where much land lies detached, a 
eee slice thou be provided. And it may be laid 
down as arule, int of landed property, that 
every diftin@ part er an extenfive siete ought to have a 
place upon it, however humble, in which ig poffeffor may 
pafs a few wee to fa over ita {pirit of good order and 
emulation nown the moit cal ager _ — 
favage foot, reclaimed, and put in a train o 
od 
ing ro and a fafe, coe or ee room, for the more 
a iaable: on me 
n 
Concerning che var of furniture, = which an office 
diftin& parts of the eftate, or 
of the different officiaries, or diftriGts, into which the more 
and. e e 
of the feveral eae intended farms ; exhibiting, at one 
tiew, the outlines, the 1 names, and the contents, of the dif- 
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palace a or pieces of land of which they are feveraily 
»—and coloured agreeably to their occupancy ; ] 
Ga is feveral fields of the exifting farms, (or intermix 
parts of farms, intended to be united, though tee: 
may be readily perceived. If feparate columns a pare 
be endorfed on the backs of the maps, one of t the 
intended farm, the others of the exifting farms, or at 3 of 
farms, with their feveral totals oe all the doubts and 
erplexity which are wont to arife on large eitates, from the 
a ot farm lands, vill, he thinks, be avoided. See 
3 
3 
Bs The rentals and books of accounts. 
3- Books of valuation ; or ¢ field books ;’ namely, regifters 
of the number, name, admeafurement, and eftimated value of 
each field, and every parcel of land, oie as of each cot- 
a farmftead, on 
as they arife whether 
valuations being inferted in colum 
with ie satel 
: general furveys, or incidentally 5 een 
their refpeied valuers ; fo that ever a farm is to be 
i thefe columns cay ‘be confulted, and its real alte be 
xed, in a re-{urvey, with the greater exa@tnefs. 
neral regifter of timber trees, growing on the 
feveral ioe of the eftate ; {pecifying the number in 
each wood, 
tracts, 
san of ordinary papers,—fuch as cont 
eafily referred to. 
papers of great es ea , to be referred to on ordinary 
occafions, and likewife to ferve as an index to the originals, 
which ae a more fecure repofitory than a commo 
t bufinefs ro 
fa fe t repofitory of documents; as title deeds, legal 
decifions, awards of arbitration, counterparts of leafes, pafled 
accounts, &c. The moft fecure keep of important papers, 
thus guarding the nts, on every fide, from - the 
mea) of: writing nee infulated ; in the centre 
And ftanding regulation, refpeting eee. 
ft 
rned. 
maps, books, and papers, 
from general furveys, and incidental occurrences, are to be 
formed pocket regifters of the farms; cerrefponding, in 
number and fize, with the portable books of maps. One 
folio, ortwo oppo ch fa Tm $ 
fo as to fhew, a one rey the name of the farm and its 
cs 
nan e a, if on 
ordinary covenant of ye leafe. 
ee of ie “Tet with the farm 
he number of timber trees growing upon it. 
——— orchard trees growing upon it. 
Alfo, the eligibility of the plan . the farm 
— occupier of the farm 
he pee rent of the f farm, 
The 
The ftate of the buildin ivi 
———-— the fences and gates. 
The 
