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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Penny-, Pennie-wedding, n. Also: -wad(d)ing. [Penny n. Only Sc.] = Penny-brydal(l. — 1672 Foulis Acc. Bk. 2, etc.
To William Brounes mans pennie wedding £2/18/00 Ib. 6.
To Sir Mark Cass his servants pennie wedding £2/18/00 1677 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 305.
That no higher raits shall be at penny weddings … then twentie four shilling Scots for the men and eighteine shilling Scots for the women Ib. 306.
The hous taverne or in where the saids penny waddings shall happin to be holdin 1680 Stirling B. Rec. II. 30.
The great abuse comitted at penny weddings by extorteing exorbitant pryces for their laweings 1686 Edinb. B. Rec. XI. 179.
Pennie wadings 1687 Lauder Notices Affairs II. 828. 1694 Falkirk Par. Rec. II. 44.
Abuses that are … committed at penny weddings by pypers playing to persones when they are going to the church to be married 1702 Dalmeny Kirk S. in Sc. Geneal. III. 15.
That much immorality was occasioned by penny weddings