Obs. Also -sede, -seyd, -syde. [a. F. subside, ad. L. subsidium SUBSIDY.] = SUBSIDY.

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c. 1450.  Brut, II. 329. He axed … a grete subsede to be graunted to hem, for defendyng of hem and of his reame.

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1474.  Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879), I. 215. The byschoppis subseyd at his fyrst entre.

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1502.  Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 193. The Rate of the Kyngis Custum and Subside of Marchaundises registred in the Escheker.

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1542.  Yatton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.), 156. Payd for the Kyngs subsyde xiij s. iiij d.

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1553.  Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1904), 54. Aqvittaunce … for the Subsede of the Church for the Svmma of iij li vj s.

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