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Cherit(e)it, a. Also: cheret(e)it, cherettit, cherreitit, cheritat, chirretit, -itat. [f. Cherité,n.] With a ‘charity’ added or given in addition. 1561 Misc. Maitl. C. II. 290.
Ane pek of beir cheretit 1563 Reg. Cupar A. II. 277.
Swa restis vndefased as ȝit … in chereteit stuff [etc.] 1568 Edinb. Test. I. 180.
xlij bollis cheritat malt 1568 Prot. Bk. J. Foulis 73.
Aucht bollis peis cherateit, … ten bollis quheit cherateit 1588 Exch. R. XXI. 377.
98 chalderis 1 boll 2 peccis … beir, being cheretit with ane pecc to everie boll 1591 Grant Chart. 401.
[Twenty-five chalders of] chereteit beir, mercat stuff, ane mercat met 1609 Melrose R. Rec. I. 79.
For thre bollis … ane pek, ij copfull, cherreitit ferme beir of the crop last 1607 1613 Edinb. Test. XLVII. 212 b.
Sevin hundreth bollis chirretit quheit and beir
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