prest

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A payment of wages in advance
   rare
3. A loan or advance (of money)
4. A tax or duty
5. A sum of money paid to a soldier or sailor upon enlistment
   obsolete
6. A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.

Equivalents

Examples

“Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks.”

“the same tayles soe hereafter there to be levyed and striken, shalbe delyvered unto everye of the same Sheriffes[…]without prest or other chardge to be sett upon them for the same.”

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