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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1686
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By-packet, -pacquet(t, n. (See By-letter.) —1686 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII. 27.
Letters, which wer smothered to and again in bypacquets outwith the publict sealled pacquett