Obs. Also 5–6 layer, 6 leyar, leire, laire. A ewer.
1491. Will of Vaughan (Somerset Ho.). A layer of siluer ouer gilt.
1508. Sponselles L. Marye, 25, in Camden Misc. (1895). No salte, cuppe, or layer … set on the borde.
1565. in Leland’s Collect. (1770), I. II. 691. The Communion Table was richly furnished with Plate … viz. … Two great Leires, garnished with stones.
1576. in H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), I. 287. A fair bason and lair guilt.
