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(
c.1270; MS: c.1270-75
) Temprance e sa chevalerie Denz mun quer ayent l’usserie Pur tut engeter vilaynie!
Man pechezants 11025
♦occupationlawoffice, duty of usher, porter (in public office):
(
1305
)
por avoir sa serjauntie de l'hussherie del escheker
Rot Parl1 i 474.86
(
1313
)
la baillie de la userie (var. ussherie) dil escheker
YBB Ed II xiv.ii 118
(
1324-25
)
A nostre seigneur le Roi et a soun counsaile moustre Johan de Daggeworth, qe come ses auncestres furent feffez en fee des progenitours nostre seigneure le Roi qe ore est entierent
[sic] de l'hussherye de l'eschekere [...]
Rot Parl1 i 427
♦eccl.occupationoffice, duty of ostiary, doorkeeper (lowest of the four minor orders in the Church):
(
1267; MS: c.1300
)
Mes des autre ordres ore dites avant, Kar l'usserie e les clefs avez De seint eglise
Lum LaisANTS 11069
usserie2 (1267)