Middle English Dictionary Entry
scot-āle n.
Entry Info
| Forms | scot-āle n. Also scottale, scothal(e, (errors) scochale, sothale, scotage; pl. scot(t)ales, (error) skotfalles. |
| Etymology | From scot n.(2) & āle n.; cp. AL scotalla, escothala. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A drinking party, prob. compulsory, held by a sheriff, forester, bailiff, etc., for which a contribution was exacted; maken ~, to hold such a gathering; (b) a festivity held by a church to raise money; ~ hous, a place where such a festivity was held; (c) a drinking party given for the villagers by the lord after mowing [cp. sithe-ale, s.v. sithe n.(1)(c)].
Associated quotations
a
- (1189) Doc.in Rec.B.Northampton 126 : Sint quieti..de Scottale.
- (1190) in Stubbs Select Chart.266 : Omnes sint quieti de jeresgieve et de scotteshale, ita quod si vicecomes noster vel aliquis alius baillivus scotthale faciat.
- (1266) Doc.in HMC Rep.9 App.1286b : Sunt quieti de Brithol et Childwyt et de Ferme et de Scothale.
- (1278) Plac.War.281 : De scothall Regis & auxiliis seu donis vicecomitis & ballivorum.
- (1299) Doc.in Rec.B.Northampton 1420 : Thei ben quyte of..ʒeresʒeue and of Scotage [read: Scotale], So that the Reue of Norht. or any other Bailif not make non Scotage [read: Scotale].
- a1300-a1400(a1268) Bracton De Leg.(Woodbine)2.332 : De ballivis qui faciunt cervisias suas quas quandoque vocant Scotale [vrr. Scottales, Scochale, Sothale], quandoque Filastale, ut pecuniam extorqueant ab eis qui sequuntur hundreda sua et ballivas suas.
- ?a1325(1194) Liber Cust.Lond.in RS 12.2249 : Omnes sint quieti de Brudtol et de Childwite et de Jeresgeve et de Scotale, ita quod Vicecomites nostri Londoniarum vel aliquis ballivus Scotale non facia[n]t.
- ?a1325(1321) Liber Cust.Lond.in RS 12.2351 : De parvis ballivis quibuscunque facientibus cervisiam quæ vocatur Felesonunshale, quandoque Scotale, ut extorqueant pecuniam a sequentibus Hundredorum et eorum subditis.
- 1419(a1216) Liber Albus Lond.in RS 12.1133 : Cives sint quieti de..Jeresgive et Scotale.
- a1450 Forest Laws (Dc 335)241 : If ther be ony forster..that maketh ony congregacion, skotfalles [?read: skothalles]..ye shul do vs to wete.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 174)61/10 : Alle forsterys, bedelys, & baylyes þat makyn scottalys or gaderyn schevys or ony swyche gadryng makyn be colour of here offyce.
b
- (1461-2) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum8 : Scotale: Et de xxiij li. viij s. x d. Rec. de diuersis jocalibus regibus & reginis.
- (1474-5) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum19 : Scotalis with Gifts to the grete Belle: Item, of the gaderyng of Robert Parche and Xtofer Flemynge, xxxiij s. ij d.
- (1474-5) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum19 : Item, in nayles for the scotale hous, v d.
c
- (1275) Cart.Ramsey in RS 79.361 : Quando pratum illud falcabunt, tota villata habebit de bursa Abbatis octo denarios ad potationem, ut dicitur Scotale.