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usserie2 (1267)

usserie2 (1267)

husserie,  hussherie,  hussherye;  userie,  ussherie  
  FEW:  ostium 7,438b Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  uis (*)  DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  ostiaria 1 2066a

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occupation office, duty of porter, doorkeeper
( c.1270; MS: c.1270-75 ) Temprance e sa chevalerie Denz mun quer ayent l’usserie Pur tut engeter vilaynie!  Man pechez ants 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 Lais ANTS 11069

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See also:

hostiarie  us2  ussel  usserie1  ussier  ussiere 
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