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Ischearie, Isherie, n. [f. Ischar(e, Is(c)her, n.] The office of an usher (Isch(e)ar n. 1 and 2). = Ischareschip. — 1629 Stirling's Royal Lett. I. 378.
A deputatione made unto him of the office of isherie of our exchequer by Sir William Ballantyne, heretable isher thareof 1641 Acts V. (1870) 332/1.
That the mater might be hard … anent his cleame to the office of ischearie
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