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.
