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Quotation dates: 1497-1557, 1646-1673
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Sex-score, adj. Also: saix- and -skore, -scoir, -skoyr. [ME and e.m.E. sex score (Cursor M.), sixe score (1535), sixscore (1604); Sex num. and Scor(e n.] Six score, one hundred and twenty. — 1497–8 Acts Lords of Council II 137.
The payment of sexskore of merkis 1507 Treasurer's Accounts III 298.
For sex score sextene stane roset 1557 Armstrong Hist. Liddesdale App. p. c.
The soum of saix skoyr nowbillis 1646 Acts VI i 601/1.
Payment of … sexscore foure pundis for … sex score lances 1673 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 185.
The soum of sexscoir and twelf punds
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