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Sape, Sope, n. Also: saip(e, saipp, sayp; saep; seap(e, seapp; sep(e; seip(e; seep; sop(p; soip; soap(e. [Early and north. ME sape (a1200), midl. and south. ME and e.m.E. sope (Ancr. R.), soap (1635), OE sápe.]

1. Soap.For further examples see Barrell n. 1, Fir(i)kin n. and Kinkin n.(a) 14.. Acts I 306/2.
Of a kyst … wyth sape in it
Ib. 336/2.
Tappand wyne walx terr and sape
1454–5 Edinb. Chart. 80. 1655–6 Peebles B. Rec. II 198.
Hawf ane pund of butter and tua schillings worth of sape to creische the towes
(b) ?14.. Ship Laws c. 2 (H).
Colis or assis oley or steil saip or ony uthir merchandice
1468 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 23.
Saipp
1497 Halyb. 59.
Bocht in Medylburche … 6 barell of sayp, ilk barell cost fre abord 15 s. 4 g.
1530 Edinb. B. Rec. II 21.
Saip
1540 Lynd. Sat. 4056.
To sell richt deir, & by gud chaip, And mix ry meill amang the saip
1547 Stirling B. Rec. I 48. 1549 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 145.
The foure lasts saip laitlie cumin in ane Hameburgh schip
1551 Hamilton Cat. 23.
Suppoise thow wesche thi self with saip and [etc.]
1554 Edinb. B. Rec. II 205.
The … counsale grantis licence to Johnne Gaittis, Inglisman, to brew saip within … this burgh
1557 Peebles B. Rec. I 237. 1573 Treas. Acc. XII 350. 1577 Edinb. Test. V 306b, 1580 Ib. VIII 193, etc. (see Kinkin n.). 1583 Soc. Ant. VII 552.
For ule and saip to cresche the Madin with
1584 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 360. 1591 Edinb. Test. XXIII 43b.
Half barrell of saipe, … ane cutting of saip price iij li. xvj s.
1592 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii 117.
For saip to wesche with, vij sindrie tymes getting at ilk tyme a pund and quarter of a pund at xxvij d. the pund
1596 Edinb. B. Rec. V 168. 1604 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 126.
Saipe
1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 326.
Saip of the Low Cuntreyis
1616 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 5. 1650 Stirling B. Rec. II 305.
For saip to the portcoolies, a pund monthlie
proverb. a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1332.
Saip and clein claith begiles manie man
(c) c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 106/9.
And quhou schou schynes lyk ony saep, My ladye with the mekle lippis
(d) 1570 6th Rep. Hist. MSS App. 646/2.
Seape
1580 Dundee Shipping L. 199.
ij kempkynnis of seap
1610 Conv. Burghs II 300.
Thair is monopollis purchest be certane privat persones … lykas … making of seapp be John Nasmeth chirurgean
(e) c1590 Thanes of Cawdor 196.
v lib. wyecht of sep
1614 Dundee Shipping L. 242.
Ane bark … contenand … fyve barrellis sepe
(f) 1581 Elgin Rec. I 159.
That he sall nocht sell na kynd of stapill guid sic as salt, hemp, lint, woll, seip nor na vther sort of merchandreis
1583 Crail B. Ct. MS 21 May.
That na gangrell man or woman sell ether butter seip or scheis … bot with the commowne vechtis
1593 Brechin Test. I 114.
Seipe
(g) 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 29 Oct.
For seep to wesche the baskits
(h) 1595 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 9a.
For ane pompe sope [6 s. 8 d.]
1616 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 52.
For butter and sope to the cairtis
1678 Cunningham Diary 106.
For 4 ounces sope to raze me with, 3 s.
1696 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXXIII 136.
17 s. & 6 d. as the price of ane feirkin of sope
16.. Nat. Lib. MS 22.2.11, penult. p.
A receat for the galshot or gulsit, Take a net great and a litle more of black sope with a yoak of a black hens egge [etc.]
(i) 1659 Craven Ch. in Orkney II 197.
Two kinkings sopp
1687 Weaver's Acc. Bk. 24 June.
For 3 pwnd and half of sop for stifin
c1698 Innes Sketches 548.
Sopp
1702 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 66.
For fish 11 s., spice 1 s., sop 3 s. 8 d. [etc.]
(j) 1588–9 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 220.
ij last soip
1627 Glasgow Chart. II 582.
Soip
(k) 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 281.
Lint, irne, soap [etc.]
1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 41.
For xii pond soap to rub the great cabell
1623 Aberd. Council Lett. I 206.
To summond our nichtbors for hame-bringing of foran soap
Ib. 205. 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 3 Oct.
For soape to wesche the siluer veschell
1646 4th Rep. Hist. MSS App. 510/1.
For soape to the kairt wheils
1690 Foulis Acc. Bk. 125.
18 daill of soap [£5 15 s.]
1691 Ib. 138.
For 4 unce castle soap

b. Also with qualifying terms: Gray, quhite, sueit sape.Cf. e.m.E. swete sope (1611–12), late ME and e.m.E. white sope (c1425). 15.. Lichtoun Dreme 64 (B).
Thair tedderis wer maid weill grit to graip With silkin schakillis and sowlis of quhyte saip
1574 Edinb. Test. III 137b.
Tuelf litill ferikynnis of gray saip
1588 Sc. Ant. IV 37.
Tak the frothe of quheit saip and straik on the sair
1597 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 1.
2 unce seap, … 2 unce cleren seap
1609 Edinb. Test. XLV 233.
Tua kinkingis of sueit saip

2. a. Attrib. with ballan(d)is, dische, silver: Of or for soap. b. Comb. with brewar(e, man.Later Sc. has saipman (1813) a soap-maker.Also Sape-ball, -hous, etc.a. 1560 Stirling B. Rec. I 74.
Ane pair of saip ballandis with ane half pund wecht [etc.]
1573 Edinb. Test. II 335b.
Ane pair of saip ballanis set to x s. viij d.
1644 Edinb. Test. LXI 60.
Ane lawer ane handfatt … ane saip dische
1575–6 State P. (Reg. H.) No. 96.
Margaret Dowchaell … lavendare to the kingis maiestie … [got] … oulklie alsua x s. of saip siluer
b. 1612 Conv. Burghs II 363.
The toun of Campheir hes imposit certane imposts … vpoun the saip payet be the saip brewares
1620 Edinb. Test. L 293b. 1616 Edinb. Test. XLIX 164b.
Cristopher Barnes saipman
1624 Brechin Test. IV 175.
Christopher Barnis saipman in Campheir

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