escrolln.
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society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > deed > taking effect on condition
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1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 102 To deliuer a Writing, or a Bill as an Escroll is vnknowne vnto all Merchants there.
1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. i. §9. 5 If..shee deliver the same deed unto a stranger as an Escrowle, upon condition that..he shall deliver the same Escrowle.
1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde I. 569 They signed the instrument of the peace to agree it might lie as an escroll in the hands of the Marquis of Clanricarde.
2. Heraldry. = scroll n.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > extra-scutal devices > [noun] > motto > scroll
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1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xx. 160 With one Escrole, hauing this Motto, Ich Dien.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 25 Mar. (1885) I. 209 Underneath there is this Escrolle, Memoria pij æterna.
1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. x. 463 Ancient families converted their war-cries into mottos, which they placed upon escrols above their crests.
1868 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 8 The Motto ‘Virtutis fortuna comes’ in an Escrole above.
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