Obs. Also 6–7 tott(e. [f. TOT v.1 (or its source).] The word tot or letter T written against an item in an account to indicate that the amount specified has been received; hence, an item in an account; also generally, a note, jotting, or comment written down.
1529. Gardiner, Lett. to Wolsey, in St. Papers Hen. VIII., I. 345. The copy … I sende unto Your Grace,… adding in the margyne tottes, wherby Your Grace may perceyve omne consilium rei gestæ.
a. 1601. Sir T. Fanshawe, Pract. Exch. (1658), 71. After his said Secondary hath made up the Sheriffs second summ upon his De debitis plurimum, which be his Tots and upon his De pluribus debitis charge which be his greene wax, and his whole as before, or so many of them as he is charged with, hee causeth the Sheriffs forraigne accounts to be cast up. Ibid., 80. He maketh speciall tot against the same summe thus [etc.].
1642. C. Vernon, Consid. Exch., 32. The greatest part of the Sheriffes totts and summes of money by him taken in charge at his apposals, would be set off and discharged.
1798. T. Farrer, in Manning, Exch. of Pleas (1819), II. App. 267. Such fines, recognizances and amerciaments, as each sheriff has received he answers by saying Tot, whereupon I [deputy clerk] mak that answer upon the roll of the estreat. When the sheriff receives part and not the whole, he answers Tot as to part, and Nil as to the rest.
