d. 1519. COLET, Statutes of St. Paul’s School. I will also that they shall have no REMEDYES.… Excepte the Kynge … desyre it.
1530. MAGNUS, Endowment Deed, Newark Grammar School. Thomas Magnus ordeyneth … that the said Maisters shall not be myche inclyned nor gyven to graunt REMEDY for Recreacyon.
1593. Rites Durham Cathedral [Surtees Society]. Ther was … a garding and a bowlinge allie … for the Novyces sume tymes to recreat themeselves, when they had REMEDY of there master.
c. 1840. MANSFIELD, School-Life at Winchester College, 49. REMEDYS were a kind of mitigated whole holiday.
1891. R. G. K. WRENCH, Winchester Word-Book, s.v. REMEDY … Remedium seems to have been the original word for holiday: translated REMEDY.… The tradition of REMEDIES being granted by great persons survives in the custom of the Judges on Circuit demanding a Half-REMEDY.
2. (old cant).—A sovereign; 20/-: see RHINO.
