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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1453-1575
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Sellat, Sallet, n. Also: sellet, -ait(t, cellat, salat, -id. [Late ME and e.m.E. sallet (c1440), salet (1465), salade (Caxton), sallate (a1600), sallate (1652), MF salade, MDu. sal(l)ade.] A sallet, the type of helmet with the lower back part curving outwards.Common only c1450-c1550.(a) 1456 Acts II 45/2.
At ilk man that his gudis extendis to xxtj merkis be bodyn … with … a sellat or a prikit hatt a suerde [etc.] 1471 Exchequer Rolls VIII 120.
Septem selletis 1484 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 40.
Swerdis, axis, cellattis, and vthir fenssable geer 1491 Acts II 226/1.
That ilke gentilman hafand ten pundis worth of land or mare be … anarmit with bassanat sellat quhyte hat gorgeat or peissane hale leg harnes swerd spere & dager 1492–3 Acts Lords of Council I 287/2.
A sellait price j merk 1494 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 68.
Thair defensabill geir, sic as jak, sellat [etc.] 1496 Treasurer's Accounts I 298.
A cap and a singil bonat to the king for his sellat 1497 Treasurer's Accounts I 384.
To Otho … to by sellatis to the king, xj s. vj d. 1504–5 Stewart Mem. 86.
ij sellatis and gorgeatis … ane hewmond, certane stele bannets 1506–7 Treasurer's Accounts III 251.
For ane elne rede bukram for ane how to the kingis sellat 1507 Lanark B. Rec. 17.
For the dychtyn of sellat and splentis, viij d. to Sanct George 1507–8 Treasurer's Accounts IV 101.
For ane sellat to mak gwn powdir vij s., … for ane knapscaw to the samyn iiij s. 1510 Rentale Dunkeld. (SHS) 4.
Sellaittis 1513 Doug. vii x 89.
He pullis down his sellet [L. galeam] quhar it hang 1514 Irvine Mun. I 35. 1516 Fam. Rose 188.
viij selletis, price of the pece xx s. 1540 Acts II 362/2.
That all vtheris our souirane lordis liegis … haif jakkis of plait halkrekis splintis sellat or stele bonet 1551–2 Dundee B. Ct. II fol. 138 (8 March).(b) 1453 Exchequer Rolls V 607.
Pro pileis ferreis vocatis salatis 1564–5 Perth B. Ct. 278 (23 March).
Archbold Lethame had … ane salid ane buklar ane jak ane knawpskall [etc.] c1575 Balfour Pract. 234.
Ane steil bonnet, ane sallet, ane jak [etc.]
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