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Ducat, n. Also: ducatt, -cait, duicat, duchat, duckat, dukat, -kett; doucat(t, -cott, doukat, -ket, -kit, dowkat, -kit; dewcat. [ME. ducat (Chaucer), dukat, -et, duckett, etc., OF. ducat.] A ducat.(a) 1456 Hay I. 207/8.
A man … that aw till a merchand … x thousand ducatis 1493 Halyb. 10.
To cont the ducat to 6s. 4 gl. … all gold there efter as it had cowrs affor the crya 1496 Treas. Acc. I. 310.
Giffin to the King to play at the cartis, xlvii vnicornis, ij ducatis. ij Franch crovnis [etc.] a1500 Bk. Chess 1618.
With this merchand … Fyve hundreth ducatis left he for to hald 1503 Peebles. B. Rec. 200.
Master Patrik … restis awand to the towne vj duchattis 1508 Rentale Dunkeld. 3.
Fyftye ducatis maid in fynance at my Lordis commaund … , the ducait maid for xviii s. 1538 Treas. Acc. VII. 31.
For bukillis and the curche all fyne ourgilt witht the ducat c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2602.
Mycht a byschope eik tyll his awin expens, For ilk sermone. ten ducatis in his hand 1560 Rolland Seven S. 3667.
The haill knawledge thairof thay suld expreme … For ane ducat or ȝit ane Frenche croun 1569 Edinb. Test. I. 272.
In ane vther by purs nyntene ducattis 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 15.
The lordis … sould haue benefices … assignit to thame ȝeirlie, within [1400] ducattis(b) c 1535 Lennox Mun. 349.
An thowchand dowkatis 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 15.
It was grantit … that the king suld haue lxxxiiij^m doucatis payit within foure ȝeiris 1619 (1650) Dundee B. Laws 152.
Threttie ane doukat, … price of ilk doukat foure pund Scotts money

b. With various special designations.(1) 1482 Edinb. Chart. 155.
Sex thousand ducatis of gold de camera 1494 Acta Conc. 343/1.
Withhaldin fra the said bischop of the sovme of thre hundreth ducatis de cammera 1535 Maxwell Mem. I. 265.
Fyfty ducatis of gold of the chalmer(2) 1493 Halyb. 31.
12 Ongris ducatis, price 6 s. Ib. 36.
An Owngris ducat 1542 Acts & Decr. I. 140 b.
Ane pair of beidis with v gawdeis, ilk gaude contenand ane dowble Portingale ducat 1583 Prot. Bk. J. Scott 160b.
Ane peice of gould callit ane Hungreis doucatt 1586 Edinb. Test. XVI. 348.
Ane papes ducat, price thairof iij li. 1598 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 165.
The Harie ducatt … 7 lib. 5 s. 0 d. 1609 Edinb. Test. XLV. 276.
Sex Marie ducattis, at viij li. the peace 1612 Brechin Test. II. 233.
Sex Marie doukitis, pryce lxiiij lib. 1623 Edinb. Test. LII. 74 b.
Ane Portingall dewcat 1628 Soc. Ant. XXIII. 267.
Of purs penes tuellfe Portingall duicattis, pryce of the peice j lib. Ib.
Twa vngaris dewcattis, estimat baith to ix lib. vj s. viij d. 1645 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII. 77.
The Hungars dowkit [to pass] at fyve pund 1675 Carnegie Lett. & Chart. 358.
An Portugall doucott(3) 1500 Halyb. 268.
A dubyll ducat, vi syngyl ducatis 1540 Maxwell Mem. 411.
Tua Hary nobillis; … ane singill ducat 1545 Reg. Privy C. I. 10.
Double dukatis of Spanye and Portingall Ib.
The said double ducatis to have passage … for xlviij s. Ib.
The single ducatis off wecht to have passage for xxiiij s. 1578 Edinb. Test. VI. 361 b.
Ane doubill doubill ducat, … twa singill doubill ducattis 1587 Argyll Fam. Lett. 72.
xvj doubill doucattis, price of the pece ourheid vj lib. 1591 Acts III. 527/1.
The dowbill ducat of wecht sex pundis 1612 Brechin Test. II. 233.
Aucht duble dukatis of gold, pryce lxxij lib. 1648 Edinb. Test. LXIV. 82.
Aught single doukets