• blotting

blotting ger. Blotting out, obliteration; paper , blotting paper. (1440) PParv. Hrl 221 41 Blottynge: Oblitteracio. (1465) Doc. in Rogers Hist.Agric.3 469 3 do. [quires of paper] una cum blottyng paper.

• rem, reme, rim, rem(e)s, rem

, from Ar. A standard commercial measure for a large quantity of paper, ?= twenty quires. (1356) in Lofvenberg Contrib.Lex. 62 [Two] reem [and five quires of paper]. (1379) Grocer Lond. in EGSt.(1948) 98 Remz. (1393) Acc.Exped.Der. in Camd.n.s.52 154/9

• quaier, quair(e, quare, queire, quer, quoier, wha~x0021d~er, cwaier, quaer, cwaer, cweier, quaieres, quaier

book or manuscript in a bound or an unbound state; writen ; (c) in quaieres , of a book: in quires that are not bound; (d) the standard commercial unit by which sheets of paper are sold [in some or

• Fabric Accounts1480-1

d. dean of Powlet 1 s. 0 d. writing 480 briefs and 8 long rolls 16 s. 0 d. 6 quires of paper for briefs 2 s. 0 d. parchment for rolls of prebends, churches and chapels 1 s. 6

• Close Rolls, Richard IIAugust 1388

and certain others to search out, arrest and bring with all speed before the council all books, libels, schedules and quires containing manifest heresies and wicked opinions which were compiled, published and written by Master Nicholas Hereford and by Master

• Close Rolls, Edward IIAugust 1313

' Actor et Reus ,' a book of autentica of the constitution of the emperor Justinian, an antiphoner with two quires of the dedication of churches, a sum of Tancred, three codices , and one book of divers lectures of

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIApril 1356

of Flanders price 10 s . 6 d ., four 'pigges wolles' price 20 d ., two 'reem' and five quires of paper price 5 s . 8 d ., broken silver price 4 d ., one 'ridell' price 18

• Memorials1378

inkehornes ," 18 d .; 2 pencases, 6 d .; one black girdle of woollen thread, 2 d .; 13 quires of paper, 6 s . 8 d .; other paper, damaged, 6 d .; one hat of russet, 6