† sessor Obs.
[Aphetic f. assessor. Cf. cessor1.]
= assessor in various senses.
| 1481 Coventry Leet Bk. 481 The names of þe sessours [of a war-levy]. 1496 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 516/1 The Sessours and Ordrers in every of the said Citees and Boroughs. 1527–8 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 343 Paid for the drinking of the Sessours of the clerkes wages..vj d. 1579–80 North Plutarch, P. æmil. (1595) 282 They [sc. the Censors] be the sessours of the people, and the muster masters. 1642 Ordin. & Decl. Lds. & Comm. 29 Nov. 5 To nominate Sessors for the same City and Borough. 1712–13 Swift Jrnl. to Stella 29 Jan., We also raised sixty guineas upon our own Society; but I made them do it by sessors,..and we fitted our tax to the several estates. |