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Parchemyn, Parchement, Perchement, n. Also: pairche-, parchia-, -ea-, parchy-, parsche-; pearchea-; perchi(a)-, perca- and -me(y)n(e, -mont, -myne, -mynn. [ME. and e.m.E. parchemin (Cursor M.), -myne (14th c.), -ment (1456), perchemyn (c 1400), ment (a 1450), perchymyn (Caxton), F. parchemin, north. F. parcamin (11th c.), L. pergamēna, med. L. also pergamentum (11th c.), whence also MDu. parcament, etc. Cf. also Parchment.] Parchment.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xxiv. 337.
Askyt he … Pene, ink and parchemyne Ib. xxxiii. 449.
& gert men in a frame hym stracht & drew hyme … As men dois with parchymene 1428 Ayr B. Ct. 121 b.
Parchymyn 1474 Treas. Acc. I. 54.
Parchement c1515 Kennedy Asl. MS. II. 273/28.
Parchiament 1531 Bell. Boece I. 254.
On rude and hard parchement 1555 Crail Ch. Reg. 65.
Ane messail of parchyment 1597 Bk. Rates 8 b.
Parcheament the dosane xxx s.(b) 1681 Irvine Mun. II. 295.
Tua skinns of pairchement … to be heids to the touns drum(c) c1520-c1535 Nisbet III. 188.
I haue ma thingis to write to you, and I wald nocht be perchemynn and jnk 1539 Treas. Acc. VII. 163.
Bukis of perchement 1542 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 576.
Ane round cart of percament 1542 Acts & Decr. I. 140.
Perchiment c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS. 277 b/56.
War all the erd peper and perchemeyne [v.r. perchmyne] [etc.] 1579 Misc. Bann. C. II. 201.
Auld perchement the stane xl s. 1579 Dickson & Edmond Ann. Sc. Printing 303.
[Books] bund in perchement(2) 1429 Cal. Doc. IV. 406.
A sufficient clerk to indent al thingis and in parchemyn 1490 Irland Mir. I. 123/25.
Writtin richly jn virgin parchement 1541–61 Linlithgow Sheriff Ct. MS. I r. in Fife Sheriff Ct. xxxiv. n.
His infeftment … in perchiament writing 1565 Instit. Ct. Sess. 286.
The transumpting of evidentis or vther writtingis in parchement vnder the seill of office 1578 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. I. 84. 1583 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 284.
Ane tabill … of the haill customes of this burgh … to be putt in perchement in ane brod Ib. 310. 1588–9 Crail B. Ct. 26 Feb.
To be registrat and extractit in parschement — 1592 Crim. Trials I. ii. 268.
Ane summondis … writtin on parchiament, gevin vnder the quarter-seill

b. Also comb. with -maker and -skin. — 1532 Treas. Acc. VI. 50.
For vij parchement skynnis … xj s. viij d. 1584 Perth Hammermen App. ii.
As buike binder and pearcheament maker 1590 Edinb. Test. XXI. 280.
xviij parchemont skynnis at xl s. the dosone