Obs. Also 5 wyte, 5–6 wyt(t, 6 witt(e; 5 pa. t. wytte; 6 pa. pple. witte. [app. inferred from WITWORD testament, bequest. Cf. bewit(t (1436 and 1587), by-forms of BEQUEATHE by contamination with this.] trans. To bequeath. Hence † Witting vbl. sb., bequest.
1393. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), I. 184. I wyte and I commend my saule to all myghty God & to our lady synte Mary.
1406. E. E. Wills (1882), 12. Y wyt to the person of my paryssh vj s. viij d.
c. 1420. Lay Folks Mass Bk., 86. He wytte his saul to his fadyr. Ibid. (c. 1450), 71. All … þat … in testment wytes any gode in mayntenyng of þis kirk.
1483. Cath. Angl., 421/1. To Wytt gude, legare.
1504. Will, in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees), 295. The residue of my gude nott witte.
1547. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), VI. 237. I give and wit my soule unto Almighty God.
