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Quotation dates: 1552-1567, 1622-1657
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Emperiour, n. Var. of Emperour or Empriour. (In 1567 designating a foreign crown-piece and pistole.) — c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3678.
Aye quhill that Cesar … Wes chosin emperiour and kyng 1567 Edinburgh Testaments I. 17.
Foure crounis of the emperiour, vi li. 1567 Ib. 75 b.
Twa emperiour crownis and ane emperiour pistolat, price of the pece xxxj s. 1622-6 Bisset I. 25/4.
The nobill … Roman emperiour Justiniane 1622-6 Ib. 13.
This wirthie emperiour1657 Mure Hist. Rowallane 247.
The lives of the popes, emperioures, kings of France [etc.]
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