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▪ I. † kirset1 Sc. Law. Obs.
Also kerset, kirseth, kyrset(t.
[app. a. ON. kyrrseta or kyrrsæti, sitting in peace and quiet, freedom from disturbance.]
Exemption from the payment of taxes, granted for one year to a new burgess (see quot.).
In some MSS. of the Burgh Laws the erroneous form kirksett is found: see Jamieson, s.v.
14..Burrow Lawes c. 27 Quha sum evir be made new burges of a waste lande and he hafe na lande wythin þe burgh herberyt in þe fyrst ȝere he sall haf kyrset [Latin text kirseth] And efter þe fyrst ȝere he sall haf herberyt lande and byggyd. [1609Skene Reg. Maj. 122 He may haue respit, or continuation for payment of his burrow mailes for ane zeare, quhilk is called hyrsett (sic).]
▪ II. † kirset2, kyrsede, -ett(e
obs. ff. cresset.
1459–60Acc. Rolls Durham (Surtees) 88 Le Kirsettez in domo capitulari et Refectorio. c1497Inventory in MS. Ashmole 1519, lf. 141 b, In coquina: a chawfere, a brandlet, a kirset. 1505–6Acc. Rolls Durham (Surtees) 104 De 11 petr. feodi [coquinæ] pro le kyrsett ad portam abbathie. 1569Inv. in Trans. Cumbld. & Westmld. Arch. Soc. X. 34 On Kyrsede & ij trepetts price vs. |