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Quotation dates: 1461-1604
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Do-service, n. Also: du(e) service, due serwice; dou service. [f. the phrase to do service: see Service n. Cf. also Dew service.] Service rendered by, or required from, a tenant to a superior. 1461 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XVII. 314.
Payand ȝerlie tel ws and our hous … ten pounds … with othir do service acht and wont 1473 Stirlings of Keir 241.
Payand … for ale other do seruis, with courtis, plantis [etc.] 1495 Maxwell Mem. I. 217.
The sade Johne and his ayris payande to ws … devyteys and do seruis acht and wovnt 1517 Acts Lords of Council MS. XXIX. 21.
He dysyris the … do service of all the tenandis 1543 Charter (Reg. H.) C.O. No. 100.
All vthir do seruice, petitioun, or clame that I the said Schir William … haif 1602 Monkland Baron Ct. 4.
That na tennentis that awcht doseruice sal fe nane of it with na vther bot thair awin seruice(b) 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I. 190.
He payand tharof ȝerly to ws of standand male x lib. … with aucht and wnt duservice 1515 Edgerston Writs MS. (Reg. H.).
Dewtie & due seruice that to the saidis half land … pertaines 1557 Reg. Dunferm. 400.
To pay … twelf caponis to giddir wutht hariage careage and due serwice(c) 1604 Urie Baron Ct. 178.
Vith harrage, carrag, dov service, as said is
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