1827 R. Montgomery Age Reviewed ii. 253 What motly knaves..Advent'rous tramp, with mother, brat, and spouse, Quite scripless all, as to some pauper house?

1850 J. Hamilton Mem. Lady Colquhoun vi. 234 Then it was that on the adherents of the new and scripless Institution was poured out that spirit of joyful contribution.

1867 R. Palmer Life P. Howard 3 As purseless, scripless and shoeless as the seventy-two disciples of Christ.

1985 T. E. Lyon in D. Q. Cannon & D. J. Whittaker Supporting Saints viii. 220 On 11 February 1849 John Lyon reported for three years of purseless, scripless missionary work.

1969 Economist 6 Dec. 109/3 ‘What cannot be stolen cannot become an insurance claim,’ says..an advocate of the scripless society.

1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 22 May 19 Under the new system, brokers and participating institutional traders would adopt a scripless shareholding.

1995 G. Heij in K. Cao Changing Capital Markets East Asia (2000) viii. 293 It is believed that with the trend towards scripless trading, stamp duty will in the long term disappear.

2014 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Electronic ed.) 6 Jan. 3 Hong Kong needs to catch up with international practices, so the brokering community supports the reform to go to a scripless market.