a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 414 May he dug hym a doket, A kodpese like a pokett.

a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 25 Lett it alwey be remembered to make in the kinges doggettes both venit and recessit as often as it pleseth the King the prince to come or goe.

1526 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 229 The Clerke of the Green Cloth shall..ingrosse and cast up all the particular Breifments of the House..and the same, soe cast up..enter in the Parchment docquett, called the Maine Docquet.

1526 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 234 The Clerk of the Spicery..doe dayly make the Briefments or docquets of the expence of his office.

1555 Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 6 That every person..auctorised to..purveye any Beefes, Wethers, Lambes [etc.]..shall make a Docket or Briefe in writing..conteyning all & every suche Beefe, Wethers, Lambes [etc.]

1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 126 Docket is a little peece of paper or parchment written, that conteineth in it the effect of a greater writing.

1643 in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1703) II. vii. 327 Several proportions of Armes mention'd in a Docquet, then sent inclosed in our said Letters.

1858 J. Doran Hist. Court Fools 219 The warrant..may have been preserved, and probably also a docket or short minute of it.

1552 in St. Papers, Domestic (MS.) Docquets I. [King's Bills endorsed ‘Docquet’].

1576 in St. Papers, Domestic (MS.) A docquet of the contents of her ma^stes lettres patentes graunted the xvth of June.

1580 , 1590 in St. Papers, Domestic (MS.)

1660 S. Pepys Diary 13 July (1970) I. 198 My patent..being done, we carried it..to Mr. Beale for a Dockett.

1663 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1971) IV. 62 I did see the Docquet by which Sir W. Penn is made the Comptroller's Assistant.

1686 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 503 There was a docquett to be sealed importing a Lease of 21 yeares to one Hall.

1686 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 509 We should be required to passe a Doquett, Dispensing with Dr. Obadia Walker & 4 more..to hold their Masterships, fellowships & Cures.

1837 W. H. Black Docquets Lett. Patent at Oxf. (Recd. Commiss., unpubl.) Pref. vii The Docquet books..present in the form of a Register or Journal short abstracts of all instruments that were prepared for the great seal in the offices to which they respectively belong.

1669 S. Pepys Diary 12 Mar. (1976) IX. 480 To the Crowne Office, where we..did take short notes of the Dockets.

1687 in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) 204 The Steward ask'd for a docket of y^e 2 last years fines.

1692 Act 4 Will. & Mary c. 20 §1 Every Clerk of the Doggets of the Court of Kings Bench..shall..put into an Alphabetical Doggett by the Defendants names a particular of all Judgments for Debt.

1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Docket or Dogget When rolls of judgments are brought into C.B. they are docketted, and entered on the docket of that term; so that upon any occasion you may soon find out a judgment, by searching these dockets, if you know the attorney's name.

1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Judgment By rule of Michaelmas, 42 Geo. 3 (2 East. 136) no Judgment can be signed upon any warrant authorising any attorney to confess Judgment, without such warrant of attorney being delivered to and filed by the Clerk of the Dockets; who is ordered to file the warrants in the order in which they are received.

1790 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 1 382 The plea entered on the docquet.

1800 A. Addison Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 14 Only one cause appeared on the docquet.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Docket,..3. An alphabetical list of cases in a court, or a catalogue of the names of the parties who have suits depending in a court. In some of the States, this is the principal or only use of the word.

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) On the docket, in hand; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. (Colloq.)

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 115 The person has subjected himself to being a bankrupt: if so, he is made one, which is termed striking a docket.

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. (at cited word) ‘To strike a docket’ is said of a creditor who gives bond to the Lord Chancellor, proving his debtor to be a bankrupt; in consequence of which a commission of bankruptcy is taken out against him.

1835 T. Hood Dead Robbery i Of all the causes that induce mankind To strike against themselves a mortal docket.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 189/2 Docket or Dogged..the entry made by the secretary of bankrupts, when a petitioning creditor's affidavit of debt is lodged with him for the purpose of issuing a fiat in bankruptcy, technically called ‘striking a docket’.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. iv. 107 Esmond..having fairly struck his docket in this love transaction, determined to put a cheerful face on his bankruptcy.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Docket, a little Bill ty'd to Goods or Wares, and directed to the Person and Place they are to be sent to.

1839 Countess Granville Let. 11 Feb. (1894) II. 282 You may find your delightful tour safe in red tape and docket.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 71 Tourists..Provided with passport, that requisite docket.

1883 I. Taylor Alphabet I. 253 On the outer edge of these tablets a docket is occasionally inscribed..containing a brief reference to the contents, evidently for the purpose of enabling the keeper of the records to find any particular document.

1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Docket, hatting term. The wage ticket of workpeople.

a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. C2 Properties of a Lyon, a broad brest, a stiffe docket.

1615 F. Bacon Let. to King 12 Aug. in Rawley Resuscitatio (1657) Your Majesty shall shortly receive the Bill, for the Incorporation of the New Company: together with a Bill, for the Privy Seal, being a Dependancy thereof. For this Morning I subscribed, and docketted them both.

1621 Ld. Keeper J. Williams in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 169 I could not all yesterday get the Clarke of the Signet to docquet the same.

1833 Act 3 & 4 Wil. IV c. 46 §69 The Lists of Occupiers..or a Copy thereof docqueted and signed by the Preses of any Meeting of the said Commissioners.

1692 Act 4 Will. & Mary c. 20 §2 No Judgment not doggetted and entred in the Bookes..shall affect any Landes or Tenementes as to Purchasers or Mortgagees.

1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. at Judgment Which Judgment..is..binding; provided the same..be regularly docketed; that is, abstracted and entered in a book.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 58 It is said by Sir J. Jekyll, that judgements cannot be docketed after the time mentioned in the act.

1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 101 §22 Such assignation..may not have been docqueted with reference to such warrant.

1810 Countess Granville Let. 29 Aug. (1894) I. 11 Having embarked me at last in a regular docketted correspondence.

1866 R. Chambers Ess. 1st. Ser. 152 A set of docketed papers, tied up with red tape.

1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. viii. 612 In this docketing it lay, sealed for many years.