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Sedule, Schedul(l, n. Also: sedull, scedule, -ull, sedill, -yll, -ell, shedole, shedul(e, sheadull. [ME and e.m.E. sedule (1397), seadule (1523), schedule (1560) schedull (1584), scedule (Shakesp.), OF sedule (1285 in Hatz. Darm.), late L. sc(h)edula a small leaf of paper, f. sceda (med. L. scheda) a written paper, sched S(c)hete n.1 3 c; cf. Cedule n.] A written document, freq. one transmitted as a missive; a (more or less formal) statement or epistle in writing; a letter, note, notice, memorandum.(a) a1500 Henr. Practysis 22.
On ȝour saule beid That ȝe be sicker of this sedull I send ȝow With the suthfast seggis a1500 Lanc. 142.
For thir sedulis and thir billis are So generall, and ek so schort at lyte c1475 Wall. ii 216.
Compleyn, sanctis thus, as your sedull tellis … Compleyne his payne … thus that … In langour lyis, for losyng of thar luff 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. 280. a1568 Scott vi 33.
Suld I presome this sedull schaw Or lat me langouris be lamentit a1568 Scott xxvi 74.
I wat gud wemen will not wyt me Nor of this sedull be eschamit 1572 Sat. P. xxxi 4.
Ane cunning clerk … This lytill sedull schortly sends To all that the gude caus defends(b) a1568 Scott ix 4.
Ȝour scedull is so excellent, It passis far my wyttis fyve 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. ii xix § 1 (1678) 447.
An enditement with us, is a scedule containing the accusation given to the defender(c) a1568 Bann. MS 244a/33.
Schaw schedull to that sueit My pairt so permanent 1570 Sat. P. xxiv 98.
The generall this schedul at schort to thé sends a1585 Maitl. Q. 110/66.
Sen I can na other way declair My troublit hairt to that princes preclair Bot be my wryte and schedull quhilk I send 1581 Sat. P. xliv 2.
Schedul 1584 Acts III 359/1.
The … masteris of the saidis criminall personis to … present thame according to the generall band vpoun his [sc. the Earl of Caithness's] schedole or wallentyne(d) 1657 Balfour Ann. IV 3.
3 persons … wer … sentenced … to haue ther eares nailled to the trone of Edinburghe by the hangman, ther dittay being wrettin one a shedule one ther faces 1699 Belhaven Rudiments.
To whom I have dedicated this shedul(e) 1539 Renfrew Arch. Coll. I 185.
Togidder with our corne myll of Paslay in the sedyll 1539 Renfrew Arch. Coll. I 185.
Sedill(f) a1585, a1568 Montg. P. vii 4.
This sedell schorte my sorrowis sall resyite
b. A loose or separate sheet (of paper) containing some document or record. c. A statement accompanying or appended to another document or book and containing additional or supplementary matter, an appendix.1638 Duke of Hamilton Vindication in Spalding I 102.
And I haue thoght it fit to do it in a scedull annexit to this book 1666 Glasgow Chart. II 106.
Dumbartownes bookis of entrie … being bot ane patched up rapsidie and some sheadullis of peaper, not soe mutch as bund in a formall book 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 62.
These charters … I have coppied out of the records and written in some sheduls apart
