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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Tender, n. [e.m.E. tendre (1542-3), tender (1544).] An offer. b. specif. With reference to the attempt to effect a union between England and Scotland during the period of the Commonwealth. 1678 Turner Mem. App. 273.
I apprehend no danger of that by the tender of his service to the king at Whitehallb. 1652 Lamont Diary 38.
They caused publish … a proclamation of vnion vniting England and Scotland … They enacted that no person … sould haue any benefitt … till first they accepted of the tender 1652 Lamont Diary 42.
All that had taken the tender were debarred from the tabell 1652 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 130.
[They] did approve the said deputies procedour of quhat he haid done in thair nam, and wer willing to accept of the said tender 1652 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III 52.
[Mill was the first of these Sheriff Officers whose admission bears that he was made to accept] the tender of the Parliament of Ingland 1652 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III 73.
The tender of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Ingland. That Scotland be incorporated thairinto and maid one Commonwealth with Ingland 1652 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III 75.
To accept the oathes of any deputy clerks and see them subscrive the tender 1652 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III 66.
To tak the said James Thom his oath and admitit of his receiving the tender of unjion 1656 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III 56.
[Admission of Sheriff Officers … The] tender [of the English Parliament is omitted from this admission and afterwards] 1660 Wodrow Hist. I (1828) 72.
Mr. Sharp, … took the tender, and fell in with the usurper c1680 W. Row Blair 294.
At that meeting … of the Commissioners … the main … business was, that the two nations … should be incorporate in one commonwealth, without king or lords … This was commonly called the Tender 1688 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 286.
Being hardlie pressed to subscryve the tender disclaiming the king's laufull authority