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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Priores, n. Also: prioresse, -us, -ous, -iws, -ice, pryores(e. [ME and e.m.E. prioress(e (c 1290), pryores, pryowresse (c 1440), OF prior-, prieuresse (13th c. in Godef.), med. L. priōrissa.] A prioress. 12.. (? 1282) Reg. St. A. 343.
[Priorissa de Manuel 1328 Exch. R. I 88.]
Priorisse Sancti Leonardi a1400 Leg. S. xxx 376.
Scho passit furth til ane abbay … til here a mes & spak thare with the priores Ib. xxxii 655.
The bischope gert than a nunry make … & blissit hyr as priores 1400 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 49.
An honorabile lady Dam Alice the Lyndesay Pryorese of the nunnys of Hadyngton 1424 Coldstream Chart. 43.
Priores 1498–9 Acta Conc. II 298.
Efter the tenore of Dame Alisone Hume priores of Northberwic a 1509 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii 130.
Dame Elezabeth Hum priorice of the said Abbay of Ecclis nunray 1537–8 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 198.
Resavit fra the priorus Northbervik of the said ald taxt Ib.
The priorus Caldstreme Ib. 228.
The priores Northberuik 1540 Lynd. Sat. 1831 (Ch.).
Speir at my ladie priores, Gif lechery be sin Ib. 3655.
This halie priores Is turnit into ane cowclink Ib. 265 (Bann.).
Pryores Ib. 3649 (Ch.). c1552 Id. Mon. 5878.
Ȝe abbot, pryor and pryores, Consydder quhat ȝe did profes 1558 Douglas Chart. 249.
Sester Crestan Bellindin, prioriws off the Senes 1573 Reg. Privy S. MS XLII 6 b.
Be the priorous and convent of Eccles 1574–5 Ib. (ed.) VII 12/1.
Issobell, priores of the abbay of Hadingtoun, and convent thairof c1646 Craufurd Edinb. Univ. fol. 29.
For payment of an small revenue to an titular prioresse