Obs. Also 6 cesm-, 7 ceas-, ceassement. [var. spelling of SESSMENT, aphetic f. ASSESSMENT.] = ASSESSMENT.
c. 1540–1660. [see SESSMENT].
1584. Vestry Bks. (Surtees), 16. Item receaved a cesment for mending the leades, xiijs. vjd.
1613. R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Cessement, tribute.
1621. Molle, Camerar. Liv. Libr., II. xii. 113. The Tholousans … made a great ceassement of money, which was gathered and leuied, but with great difficultie.
1635. Vestry Bks. (Surtees), 97. A ceasment of sex penns a pound.
1645. Martin’s Echo, in Prynne, Discov. New Blazing-Stars, 44. Is it not you that pay all the Taxes, Cessements, and oppressions whatsoever.
1721–33. Strype, Eccl. Mem., II. I. II. ii. 261. To put their said order and cessement in writing.
