1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 96 To appointe..what time the sesse should continewe.

1673 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 119 Paid to Richerd Bell for the sesse, 8d.

1708 London Gaz. No. 4442/4 They intend to make Sale of the Lands of such Persons.., who refuse to pay the Sesses laid upon them.

1842 R. H. Barham Row in Omnibus in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 213 There's the rent, and the rates, and the sesses, and taxes.

a1581 E. Campion Hist. Ireland (1631) 126 The abuses whereof with sesse [c1571 cesse] and souldiours doe so impoverish and alienate the needie Farmors from us.

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 78/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Vpholders of all Irish enormities, wringing from the poore tenants euerlasting sesse [1577 ceasse].

1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 27 By their continuall Sesse and Extortion [p. 253 Sesse of Souldiers].

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Kent 75 Sir Henry Sidney..established the Composition of the Pale, in lieu of Purveyance and Sesse of Souldiers.

1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 641/1 The semi-fluid mass is ladled out from the precipitated ley into rectangular frames, or sesses, as they are called in Liverpool.

1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 382 That the price of ale be sessed at euery lawday by the gret enquest.

1484 Coventry Leet Bk. 519 Wheruppon they were commytte to warde, and their ffyn sessed be þe seid Maire..at xx li.

1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 8 The saide maire and the aldermen maie haue power..to sesse fines by their discreasions.

1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia v. f. 108^v When the hostages were brought in by the day limitted, he appointed dayesmen betwene the Cities to consyder of the matter in variance, and to sesse the penalty.

1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 60 The Coroners ought to be there to sesse the wages.

1640 Archdeaconry of Essex Min. (MS.) 1638–40, 195 Not paying ii^s vi^d which he was seast for bread and wyne and diverse other necessary expences.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. lxxxii. 365 Those [taxes] which were at first sessed but for a limited time.

1465 J. Rising in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 309 There putte into the Kyngis pryson by-cawse of the fyn which was sessed vpon the forsaid John Smyth, John Hopton, and me.

1551 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 207 Suche taxe and tallenge as shall be uppon hym taxed and sessyd.

1561 in Rec. Caernarvon (1838) 298 That you giue likewise in chardge to the said Jury to taske and sease such severalle fines vppon the severall offenders.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. i. 16 Any person, upon whom any such Fines shalbe so seased.

1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 73 To sess, tax, and limit upon every such obstinate person, what sum the said person shall pay weekly.

1475 Rolls of Parl. VI. 139/2 Henry Bodrugan..sessed the people of the said Shire to grete notable sommes.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 710/1 I sesse, as a kynges officers do a kynges subjectes what they shall paye, je taille.

1542 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 166 ij persons shalbe chosen to sesse and tax..the inhabytaunts.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxix For which cause the kyng..seassed and fined her at a great some of money.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus iii. xi, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 306 So that euery one rateably was seased [1619 seised] at a certaine summe.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 43 At last the bird was sessed to pay.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. ix. 186/2 Cæsar..seized them at forty hostages, with sufficiencie of graine for his whole armie.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. iv. sig. H^v That was with the griefe Thou took'st for being seast at eighteene pence, For the water-worke. View more context for this quotation

c1613 (c1488) in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 61 As for our land, we pay our dymes therfore, and trust in you that ye will not ses none thereof, wherby we should have cause to make further labor; for it is not the Kyngs mynd to ses no dymeable land.

1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 32 Likewise he Sessed all Bishops and Abbots what number of souldiers they should finde.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. App. 26 The Clergy and Lords then refusing to pay any more then they were first sessed unto.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 166 Causing his Coin to be stamped with his Master's Inscription, his Subjects Mulcted and Sessed by his Impositions.

1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 119 Ses, ses heer, Doggs.