‖ quietus est Obs.
[(med.)L. = ‘he is quit’.]
= quietus.
| 1427–8 Rolls Parlt. V. 409/2 That thei haue not theire Quietus est out of the Eschequier. 1530 Latimer Rem. (Parker Soc.) 309 To have..your quietus est sealed with the blood of our Saviour Christ. 1594 Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 217 That Steward..salued vp all his reckonings, and got his quietus est. 1681 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 74 On Monday the 11th of Aprill the lord cheif justice Scroggs received his quietus est. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Quietus est..a Phrase us'd by the Clerk of the Pipe and Auditors in the Exchequer, in their Acquittances and Discharges given to Accountants: A Quietus est granted to the Sheriff likewise discharges him of all Accounts due to the Queen. |