Given in Nares as a separate word; but in quots. app. a misprint of COURTIER.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 583. Courties, Chanons, Monkes, and Schollers of Colledges.
a. 1634. Chapman, Revenge Honour (N.). I shall declare to you … why men are melancholy. First, for your courties.
1659. W. Chamberlayne, Pharonnida, II. 159 (N.). A subtile way, To the observant Courties to betray Their serious folly.
