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(Chapter,) Cha(i)ptour, n.2 Also: chaptre, chaptaire, -ttair, chaipter; chaptur(e, -tor, chaiptur. [Reduced form of Chapiter, n.2 See also Cheptour n.2]
1. A chapter of a cathedral or religious house; a meeting of this.(a) 1410 Reg. Episc. Brechin I. 30.
This was done in the chaptre of the Cathedral Kirk of Brechine 1455 Misc. Bann. C. III. 192.
The siell off our chapttair at Kirkwaw 1573 Reg. Soltre 224.
The chaipter is contenuit to the 4 … Marche(b) 1375 Barb. xvii. 587.
Tharfor that bargaine callit was ‘The Chaptour of Mytoune’; for thare Slayn sa mony prestis ware 1466 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 391.
We … witht the consent off oure chaptour fully settis till oure luffit seruande & man … thre pennylande [etc.] 1493 Reg. Cupar A. I. 244.
In witnes hereof to thir oure present letres, we haue appensit the sele of our chaptour 1573 Reg. Soltre 227.
That thair commoun sele of the said college be … consent of thair chaptoure be changit 1583 Ib. 238.
The provest and prebenderis … consentit that tua chaptouris be haldin yeirlie 1585 Acts III. 419/1.
With expres consent and assent of the chaptor and metrapolitane kirk of Sanctandrois 1612 Ib. IV. 501/2.
The deane and chapture of the cathedrall kirk(c) 1488 Paisley B. Rec. 407.
The common seyle of the chaiptour and … the said burgh of Renfrew 1542 Sutherland Chart. 97.
We, … be avise of our dene and chaiptour, to haf mature consideratioun of trublis [etc.] 1573 Reg. Soltre 224.
The nixt chaiptur is continuit till the first day of Februar
2. A chapter-house. 1574 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. 384.
To Jame Chalmer, wreicht, for the kesing of the wyndo in the chaptor
3. Attrib. with chalmer, hous, seill. 1562 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 4.
The day of thair conventioun … in the chapterhous of the paroche kirk of Aberdene 1593 Reg. Great S. 817/2.
De … camera capitulari, lie chaptour chalmer 1599 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 244.
The deyne of gild resavit the boxe with the … chaptour seill of the college kirk of S. Geill
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