Foresaid

a. [f. FORE- pref. + SAID.] = AFORESAID. (In Sc. writings of 16th c., and in legal formulæ until 18th c., it occurs with plural ending forsaidis.) Now rare.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Josh. vi. 22. Iosue cwæþ þa siððan to þam foresædan ærendracum.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 6390 (Cott.).

1340.  Ayenb., 190. He him com to playni to þe uorzede manne.

1413.  Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), V. xiv. 105. I sawe a semely persone standyng nyhe the forsaid tree, beholdyng euer vpward wonder besyly.

1563.  Shute, Archit., B j b. Afterwardes vsing then the measures of the forsayde Pillours, makynge the pillour Ionycke.

1585.  Jas. I., Essayes in Poesie (1869), 55. Ze may put in practise in zour verse many of thir foirsaidis preceptis.

1679.  Dryden, Troilus & Cr., III. i. Wks. 1883, VI. 325. Thers. And all these foresaid men are fools. Agamemnon’s a fool, to offer to command Achilles; Achilles is a fool, to be commanded by him; I am a fool, to serve such a fool; and Patroclus is a fool positive.

1775.  Adair, Amer. Ind., 321. Though the Alebahma French, and many towns of the Muskohge, were in a violent ferment, when the fore-said warriors returned home, yet by the treacherous mediation of the above-mentioned traders and their base associates, the breach was made up.

1787.  Cowper, Lett., 17 Nov. ’Foresaid little Bishop and I had much talk about many things, but most about Homer.

1821.  Scott, Kenilw., xii. The entrance to the courtyard of the old mansion lay through an archway, surmounted by the foresaid tower, but the drawbridge was down, and one leaf of the iron-studded folding-doors stood carelessly open.

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1556.  Lauder, Tractate, 139.

1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 336/2. The foresaid are kind of Bottles which Reapers and Mowers use to carry their Drink or Milk in.

1752.  J. Louthian, Form of Process (ed. 2), 120. All Cost, Skaith, Damage and Expences, he or his foresaids [i.e., his ‘executors, assigns, etc.’] may happen to sustain therethrough, &c.