Also 8 Sc. sutlarie, -y, suttolory. [f. SUTLER + -Y. Cf. early Cf. early mod.Du. soetelrije ‘vile opus, sordidum artificium,’ etc. (Kilian).]
1. The occupation of a sutler; victualling.
1606. Marston, Fawne, IV. i. F iij. Has my sutlery, tapstry, laundrie, made mee be tane vpp at the Court?
2. A sutler’s establishment; a victualling establishment or department, esp. for the supplying of soldiers with food and drink.
1636. Davenant, Wits, IV. i. A new Plantation … Is made in Covent-Garden, from Sutleries Of German Camps.
1701. Minute Bk. New Mills Cloth Manuf. (S.H.S.), 283. Ane order … for roupeing of the breuing looms of the sutlarie &c. Ibid., 286. The sutlary accompt.
c. 1730. Burt, Lett. N. Scot., xiii. (1818), I. 252. The town [of Maryburgh] … was originally designed as a sutlery to the garrison.
1751. Scott. Forfeited Estates Papers (S.H.S.), 223. A Brew Seat and Suttolory to be erected at the head quarters of the military.
1777. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 206/2. A chapel, a keeper’s house, taphouse, sutlery, yards [in Newgate jail].
