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† saufey Sc. and north. Obs.
Also 5 salfay, safye, 6 salfer, saufer, sawpheir, saufeir, 6–7 saiffer, 7 sau(l)ffer, saifare, 7, 9 saufey.
[Of obscure origin; prob. connected with save v.; the last syllable may possibly represent fee n. or feer. Cf. the synonymous saughe, saw-silver.]
The sum paid for recovering lost property.
Persons convicted of having stolen cattle were adjudged to pay double and saufey, i.e. app. double the value, together with a sum representing what would have been due to one who had restored the cattle when it had strayed.
c1400Alphabet of Tales 434 Bod þe riche man, when he had þe sakett agayn, wolde not pay þe salfay. Ibid., Becauce he wold nott hafe gyffen þe pure man a hondreth talentis to safye, as he promysid he sulde do. 1551–2Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 123 It is..ordanit, that all sik gudis stollin or reft, lauchfullie convict, salbe restorit and redressit with the thre dowbillis and salfer. 1561–2Ibid. I. 201 That he..sall..relief him of ane bill fylit upoun him of thre horsis takin fra the Lord Gray, with the dowble and saufer thairof. 1578–9Ibid. III. 82 And that he that is offendit unto ressave his redres with dowbill and sawfeir according to the buke and lawis [of Marchis] foirsaid. 1605Ibid. VII. 712 In matteris of auld thiftis..quo jure procedendum? quhidder by dowble sauffer or be single? Ibid. 744 That it maye be lawfull to any man to give saifare for speiring of his goodis or geir stollen, provyding it does not exceade the double of the availle of the goods stollen. 1649W. G. Surv. Newcastle 33 These Highlanders..come down..into the low Countries, and carry away Horses and Cattell so cunningly, that it will be hard for any to get them..except they be acquainted with some Master Thiefe; who for some mony (which they call Saufey mony) may help they to their stoln goods.
Hence † saufey v., trans., to redeem by payment of ‘saufey’.
1571Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 90 That na maner of persoun..furneis money to the saidis rebellis..under cullour of saulffiing thair geir. |