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Stentma(i)ster, n. [Stent n.¹ and Maister n. 12.] An official appointed to fix the amount of the ‘stent’ (Stent n.¹) paid in a burgh, etc.1618 J. Lee Hist. Ch. Scotl. App. i 403.
Stentmasters decreet for payment of cups, basins, ewers, and cloths for administering the sacrament 1618 Elgin Rec. II 154. 1633 Writers Signet 263.
The clerkis of sessioun and signet have the absolute libertie of chosing of thair awin stent maisteris be thame selffis 1639 Dunferm. B. Rec. II 215.
The proveist baillies and counsell have electit … the persones undernamit as stentmasters for taxin of the inhabitants thairof for defraying of the chairges alreadie givine to the souldiers who went to the northe at Aberdene 1640 Acts V 278/1.
To appoynt stent maisteris for reparatione of kirke and kirkȝairdis And for mentinance of the maisteris of schoolles and to stent the parochineris conforme to the act of Parliament 1642 Durie Decis. 893.
The parochioners of Innerkeithing and stent masters, having charged the Lady Rosyth to pay her proportion of the stent 1646 S. Leith Rec. 72 (see Stenting vbl. n.² 1 (2)). 1663 Decis. Lords G. 71.
The stent-masters are to be elected by the town-council 1665 Irvine Mun. II 178. 1667 Kirkcaldy B. Rec. 194.
Inhibits all stent masteris … to stent any salters pertaining to the Laird of Bogie 1667 Rothesay B. Rec. 133.
That the stent maisters thameselffis ar to be stentit 1670 Dundee B. Laws 60.
If any person shall maligne any stent m^r in the discharge of his office the maligner shall pay the double of his stent 1687 Fountainhall Decis. I 440.
They complained that the magistrates and the stent-masters were free of stent 1697 Glasgow Stent Bk. 99.
Wee the stentmaisters undersubscrybers choȝsen and elected by the magistrats and toun counsell of Glasgow 1698 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 260.
The stent masters have been in use to stent old waste and ruinous tenements 1718 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 27.
That the stentmasters … sign each page [of a tax roll] … besyd the docking at the end