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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Causey, Cawsey, later spellings of Causay n. 1624 Perth Kirk S. 307.
He … openly on the cawsey drank divers pints of ale 1635 Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 149.
Truth will yet keep the crown of the causey in Scotland c1650 Spalding (1792) I. 176.
All the covenanters now proudly crop the causey [ed. 1850 calsey] 1701 Mun. Univ. Glasg. III. 597.
Finding the North side of the inner closs of the colledge without a causey … I gave orders for causeying the sameattrib. 1678 Wemyss Corr. 139.
My hind head dashing against a causey stone 1689 Foulis Acc. Bk. 114.
[Paid for] customes and causey maill