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Quottar, -er, Cottar, n. [f. Quot n. 1.] The, or a, collector of quots. Cf. quot-maister, Quot n. 1 b. — 1575–6 Edinb. Commissariat Decreits MS VIII 30 Jan.
He sall pay to Duncane Levingstoun burges of Edinburcht quottar of the testamentis the soume of fourty merkis 1576 Reg. Privy S. VII 90/1.
[Letters raised at the instance of Mr. Henry Kinross, procurator fiscal, and Duncan Levingstoun, quotter of the commissaries of Edinburgh] 1577 Books of Sederunt MS III fol. 44 (4 June).
The cottar of the small testamentis within Sanctandrois to mak payment to the said Andro of … ten pundis money