rate bookn.

1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church vi. vi. f. 321 (heading) The taxations or rate booke of the penaunce Parloure.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 240 When God maketh up his Jewells, it is thence Rate Books will be made.

1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian Prol. 43 In no Rate-Book, it was ever found That Pegasus was valued at Five-pound.

1702 S. Slater Disc. Preciousness God's Thoughts 37 Every Man is that which He is in Gods Rate-book.

1759 V. C. Pitt Char. & Necessary Qualifications Brit. Minister of State 13 The English rate book, is not only more perplexed than the French at present, but appears to me to be infinitely more so..the imports, and subsidies are so numerous, the computations so abstruse.

1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 329/1 Rate-book, a priced vocabulary of government stores [etc.].

1906 W. Cunningham Should our Railways be Nationalised? (ed. 4) 52 The rate book for the whole of Germany is less than 80 pages, and a trader carries it about in his pocket.

1988 M. Stopford Maritime Econ. v. 207 Each commodity is then assigned a price class, which is listed in the rate book.

2005 Business Trav. News (Nexis) 14 Nov. After the journey, the invoice from the [car] supplier is systematically scrubbed against the bank's rate book to confirm the bank was charged accurately.

1785 Proc. Old Bailey 14 Dec. 37/2 They ought to produce the parish officers, they ought to produce the rate books, and the fact on which they rely, being that this is not the hand writing of William Parsons.

1786 T. Caldecott Rep. Cases Justice of Peace 1 108 Goodiff, objected to the payment thereof, alledging he was not a parishioner. The overseer opened the rate book, shewed him his name therein; and threatened to distrain for the 8s.

1835 Times 28 Sept. 3/4 In pursuance of this agreement, an entry was made in the overseers' rate-book as follows—‘To be paid by the landlord or tenant’.

1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 39 A list of the occupiers to whom they had delivered schedules..to be taken from the local rate-books.

1907 Econ. Jrnl. 17 35 Landlords would not dare to refuse any reasonable offer made by a manufacturer for convenient land, because the next rate-book would show a rise in their assessments.

1942 P. Larkin Let. 4 Aug. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 40 You have to sort 60 forms out of 5,000 of one street, say,..pausing to look up in the rate book to find where a house occurs when some son of a shit-bespattered cock chooses to call his hovel ‘Oakdene’ instead of ‘27’.

1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee (1994) iii. 89 Most of the old parish registers and rate-books were now on microfiche, but I still preferred to consult the bound volumes which had been placed in the Blair Room.