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Quotation dates: 1397-1578, 1661-1692
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Item, adv. Also: ytem. [ME. (c 1400) and OF., L. item.] Item; in the next place, likewise, also; further, moreover.(1) 1397 Acts I. 208/1.
Item in the consail general of Striuelyn … it is statut [etc.] 1398 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 38.
Ytem, it is ordanit 14.. Acts I. 337/2.
In primis, gif ony has dispersonit the balȝe … ; item, gif ony forstall the burgh … c 1450 Misc. Maitl. C. III. 195.
Item in the fyrst of rede claith of gold 1 stand; item of blew claith of gold 1 stand 1473 Treasurer's Accounts I. 64.
In the first to Schire Johnne … to pay for a pres kist … ; item, for the makin of thre albis … 1536–7 Ayr. B. Acc. 5.
Oneratio Ade Dunbar. Item in primis that he restit awand … xx s. 1661 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 198.
For the company of the Futtie quarter, Thomas Melvill … Item, for the company of the Grein quarter, John Scott 1692 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs IV. 633.
Imprimis, the yearly annnal rents … ; item, the miln mealls … (2) c1460 Wisdom of Solomon 347, 353.
Kynge Salomone sais, … that al this warld is bot vanite of vanitez … Item he sais, a generacioune passis, and other cumys … Item, al fludis enteris in the sey … 1456 Hay II. 20/29.
Item, the Emperour aw tobe knycht c1515 Asloan MS I. 213/10, 16.
Than this Hary of Longcastell tuke the crovn … Item in the first ȝere of his regne he murdrest the erll of Surry … Item thair rais ane Welche sqwyere aganis him a1578 Pitsc. II. 171/2.
Item … , ane parlieament was proclammitt
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