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† scaffery Sc. Obs.
Also 6 skafrie, skaif(f)ry, 7 scafferie.
[f. scaff v.1 or scaffer: see -ery.]
Extortion; extortionate taking of perquisites.
1555Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 500/1 The wemen perturbatouris for skafrie of money or otherwyse salbe [etc.]. 1561Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 335 Na skaiffry, sic as sampill and scheit schakin, to be tane thairof. 1606Act of Council in Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 616/2 The with-gait and libertie grantit vnto Suche shamefull scafferie and extortioun. 1634Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. ii. (1904) V. 186 For componing..with nombers of thame and taking of compositions frome thame..quilk is a foule coosening scafferie. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scot. (Wodrow Soc.) III. 662 Lyke as the poorer sort in the burrowes sould not have escaped the importable scafferie intended. |