Forms: 6–7 escrowle, 7–8 escrol(e, -olle, 7– escroll. [ad. OF. escroele, dim. of escroe: see next and SCROLL.]

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  † 1.  Law. = ESCROW. Obs.

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1622.  Malynes, Anc. Law-Merch., 101–2. To deliuer a Writing, or a Bill as an Escroll … is vnknowne vnto all Merchants there.

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1642.  Perkins, Prof. Bk., i. § 9. 5. If … shee deliver the same deed unto a stranger as an Escrowle, upon condition that [etc.].

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1736.  Carte, Ormonde, I. 569. They signed the instrument of the peace to agree it might lie as an escroll in the hands of the Marquis of Clanricarde.

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  2.  Her. = SCROLL.

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1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, III. xx. (1611), 160. With one Escrole hauing this Motto Ich Dien.

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1706.  Hearne, Collect., 25 March (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), I. 209. Underneath there is this Escrolle, Memoria pij æterna.

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1807.  G. Chalmers, Caledonia, I. III. x. 463. Ancient families converted their war-cries into mottos, which they placed upon escrols above their crests.

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1868.  Regul. & Ord. Army, 8. The Motto ‘Virtutis fortuna comes’ in an Escrole above.

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