Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Do-service, n. Also: du(e) service. [f. the phrase to do service: see Service n. Cf. also Dew service.] Service rendered by, or required from, a tenant to a superior. 1461 Soc. Ant. XVII. 314.
Payand ȝerlie tel ws and our hous … ten pounds … with othir do service acht and wont 1473 Stirlings of Keir 241.
Payand … for ale other do seruis, with courtis, plantis [etc.] 1495 Maxwell Mem. I. 217.
The sade Johne and his ayris payande to ws … devyteys and do seruis acht and wovnt 1517 Acta Conc. MS. XXIX. 21.
He dysyris the … do service of all the tenandis 1543 Charter (Reg. H.) C.O. No. 100.
All vthir do seruice, petitioun, or clame that I the said Schir William … haif 1602 Monkland Baron Ct. 4.
That na tennentis that awcht doseruice sal fe nane of it with na vther bot thair awin seruice(b) 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I. 190.
He payand tharof ȝerly to ws of standand male x lib. … with aucht and wnt duservice 1515 Edgerston Writs MS. (Reg. H.).
Dewtie & due seruice that to the saidis half land … pertaines