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Quotation dates: 1561-1613
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Cherit(e)it, a. Also: cheret(e)it, cherettit, cherreitit, cheritat, chirretit, -itat; charretit; scherretiit, scherritiit, schreitiit. [f. Cherité,n.] With a ‘charity’ added or given in addition; with a 'charity' or 'consideration' subtracted (for the checker). 1561 Misc. Maitl. C. II. 290.
Ane pek of beir cheretit 1563 Reg. Cupar A. II. 277.
Swa restis vndefased as ȝit … in chereteit stuff [etc.] 1568 Edinburgh Testaments I. 180.
xlij bollis cheritat malt1568 Protocol Book of J. Foulis 73.
Aucht bollis peis cherateit, … ten bollis quheit cherateit 1588 Exchequer Rolls XXI. 377.
98 chalderis 1 boll 2 peccis … beir, being cheretit with ane pecc to everie boll 1591 Grant Chart. 401.
[Twenty-five chalders of] chereteit beir, mercat stuff, ane mercat met 1596 Oldcambus Acc. fol. 3.
Sua rests on the counter of beir sauld furth of the barneyard … 1 ch[alder] 10 b[olls] quhilk being scherretiit extends to 1 ch 8 b 2 f[irlot] 3 p[e]k 1597 Ib. fol. 4.
Scherritiit 1597 Ib. fol. 5.
Schreitiit 1609 Melrose R. Rec. I. 79.
For thre bollis … ane pek, ij copfull, cherreitit ferme beir of the crop last 1607 1613 Edinburgh Testaments XLVII. 212 b.
Sevin hundreth bollis chirretit quheit and beir 1613 Wedderburn Compt. Bk. 104.
x bollis beir for x lib. the boll, … charretit efter the messour of Leith
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