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Fidlar, Fiddillar, n. Also: fydlar(e, fidlair, fyd-, fidler, fedlar; fidi-, fidelar, fedillar. [e.m.E. fideler, ME. fedelere, fitheler, OE.fiðelere. Cf. Fithelare.] A fiddler.(a) 1457 Exch. R. VI. 321.]
[Unacum annuo redditu … de Fiddillariscroftis
1497 Treas. Acc. I. 337.
To the fidelar in Dunbar
1516 Fife Sheriff Ct. 26.
James Anderson alias fiddillar
1621 Maxwell Mem. 325.
To ane fiddillar in Biggar
(b) 1458 Exch. R. VI. 439.]
[De Fidlariscroft
1490 Treas. Acc. I. 132.
Til ane odir fydlare
1511 Ib. IV. 309.
To ane blind fidlair
1513 Doug. viii. Prol. 63.
A fest the fedlar to morn Covatis full ȝor
1531 Bell. Boece I. 165.
He had nane sa familiar to him as fidlaris [M. fydlaris] … and gestouris
1549 Treas. Acc. IX. 281.
To ane fydlar playit at the mariage
1593 Lennox Mun. 464.
Forfalting of the garment to the vse of the first fidlair that can espy it
1649 Elgin Rec. II. 266.
Alexander Glas, fidlar, compeired for … playing in the night on the viol to debosched men
(c) 1589 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 379.
That na vagabunds … pypers, fydlers … remayne within this burgh
1596 Bk. Univ. Kirk III. 874.
Idle persons without lawfull calling, as pypers, fidlers, sangsters, [etc.]

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