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Quotation dates: 1503-1629
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Summa, n. Also: suma. [Late ME and e.m.E. summa (1442), L. summa. Cf. Soum n.1] The whole amount payable, the sum-total of (expenses, etc.). Also summa totalis. = Soum n.1 4. — 1503 Treasurer's Accounts II 395.
Item, for v elne blew damas, to be ane goun to hir … summa vj li. 1534–5 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 123.
Summa of the twa lavis immediatlie precedand [£577 12 d.] 1547 Armstrong Hist. Liddesdale I App. lxxx.
Suma of the xiij hors wagis for viij dayes 1552–3 Edinb. B. Rec. II 336. 1588 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 427.
Summa of the inuentar [£831 3 s. 4 d.] 1617 Mill Mediæval Plays 345.
Summa of the haill expensis debursit in fyrewarkis according to this preceiding compt 1629 Aberd. Council Lett. I 308.
Summa of all that is payable be yow … extends to tua hundreth fyftie fyve li. — 1534–5 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 128.
Summa totalis of irne and irnewerk of the twa leiffis precedand with this particule [£254 19 d.]
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