Law. Forms: 6 estrayte, -eyt, 6– estreat. Also 5–7 aphet. strete, (5 streete). [a. AF. estrete, OF. estraite (in law Lat. extracta), fem. sb. from pa. pple. of estraire to extract:—L. extrahĕre, f. ex out + trahĕre to draw. Cf. Fr. extrait EXTRACT.]

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  1.  ‘The true extract, copy, or note of some original writing or record, esp. of fines, amercements, etc., entered on the rolls of a court to be levied by the bailiff or other officer.’ (Wharton.)

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[1292.  Britton, I. xxii. § 7. Qi … ount … plus levé qe contenu ne fust en les estretes de noster Escheker.]

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 480. Streete, catchepol[’s] bok to gader by mercymentys.

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1479.  in Eng. Gilds (1870), 421. The seide Toune clerk to make vp his Stretys vnto the Baillifs.

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1514.  Fitzherb., Just. Peas (1538), 137 b. Shall be bounde and shall make theyr Estraytes.

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1601.  F. Tate, Househ. Ord. Edw. II., § 24 (1876), 17. The clarke of the market … shal deliver … the stretes, into the warderobe.

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1641.  Termes de la Ley, 178. Greene waxe … signifies the estreats of issues, fines, and amercements.

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1679–88.  Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden Soc.), 160. To supply the estreats of the patents in the 16th year of King Ch. 2d.

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1857.  Toulmin Smith, Parish, 107. Estreats—that is copies—of all the fines and forfeitures imposed.

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1875.  Stubbs, Const. Hist., II. xvi. 452, note. The estreats or rate rolls of the general taxation.

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  transf.  1625.  Lisle, Du Bartas, Noe, 158. What are they but estreats of those originals? Wherof th’ Almighty word engroue the portrature.

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  b.  Clerk of the Estreats (see quot.).

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1667.  E. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., I. II. xiii. (1743), 120. His [Clerk of the Estreats’] Office is to receive every Term the Estreats, or Extracts, out of the Office of the Remembrancer of the Lord-Treasurer.

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1721–1800.  in Bailey.

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1833.  Crabb, Technol. Dict.

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  † 2.  transf. in pl. The fines themselves and other payments enforced by law. Obs.

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c. 1550.  Plumpton Corr., 255. He did receive xis … over and above your rents and your estreats.

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1630.  in Nichols, Churchw. Acc. St. Margarets Westm. (1797), 40. John Fennell and Ralph Atkinson collectors of the estreats for repair of Brentford Bridge and Knightsbridge.

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1640.  Order Ho. Commons, in Rushw., Hist. Coll., III. (1692), I. 154. The said Clerks Wages, and the several Fines and Estreats.

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