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S(c)hilling-land, n. Also: scilling-, sillyng- and infl. pl. schillingis-. [S(c)hilling n. and Land n.¹] Land of a rental value of one, etc. shilling(s) in the merkland-poundland system used under auld and new extent (see Skene Verb. S. s.v. Extent).In 1585 fixed as the equivalent of the fortieth part of a ploughgate.See also Penny-land n. and Pund-land n.Chiefly in uninfl. pl. 1497 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 611.
That I … sall nocht lift rais nor inbring the malis … of the said fourti schillingis land 1519 Maxwell Mem. I 240.
Sillyng land 1528 Lennox Mun. 230.
Landis … extending ȝerly till fourty scilling land of auld extent 1534 Liber Melros 628.
The fourty schilling land pertenand till our walk myll of the said grange 1537 Boyd Fam. P. No. 12 (19 Feb.).
The sayd tuenty schilling land of Pynannot 1545 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I 127.
Nyne s. land in the Kenmwre 1561 Irvine Mun. II 12.
The twenty schilling land of Gallowmur of auld extent 1582 Prot. Bk. J. Mason 213.
Extending to ane fyve shilling land 1585 Acts III 422/2.
Bot sic as hes xl s. land in frie tennandrie haldin of the king 1598 Retours II Inq. Val. Dominii de Culross (4).
Birkinheid, foure schillingis auchtpenny land … Eister Bocht [? Becht], fyve schilling land 1647 Ib. I Inq. Spec. Fife (734).
Thrie thrid pairts of ane 10 shilling land of the bondhalf of Auchtermuchty 1648 Ib. Inq. Spec. Ayr (427).
The 15 shilling land of new extent within the parochin and regality of Kilwyning 1650 Ib. (447).
The 33 shilling and 4 penny land of Boghall 1651 Ib. I Inq. Spec. Ayr (449).
The 4 pund 5 shilling 1 pennie land of Daldilling of auld extent 1652 Ib. II Inq. Spec. Roxburgh (205).
Ane half husband land in Hardentounheid, extending to ane shilling land of auld extent 1653 Ib. Inq. Spec. Perth (614).
Ane 12 shilling land of Kintulloch Ib. I Inq. Spec. Dumfries (212).
The 26 shilling 8 pennie land of Watergraynes 1654 Ib. Inq. Spec. Kirkcudbright (263).
The 5 merk 11 shilling 8 penny land of the lands of Corsock-Lindsay of auld extent Ib. Inq. Spec. Banff (94). Ib. II Inq. Spec. Peebles (135).
The halfe of the 30 shilling land of Quhytslaid of old extent 1658 Ib. Inq. Spec. Stirling (226). 1659 Ib. I Inq. Spec. Linlithgow (200).
Thrie fourt pairts of the 20 shilling land of Grugfute Ib. II Inq. Spec. Renfrew (158). 1661 Acts VII 235/2.
All heritors who hold a fourtie shilling land of the kings maiestie in capite 1669 Ib. 624/1.
The fourtie shilling land of the saids lands of Lesswaid c1690 Cunningham Diary 128.
For their half of the ten shilling land of Boyd's Yard

b. Fossilised as a place-name. 1635 Retours I Inq. Spec. Kirkcudbright (210).
Et terris vocatis lie Tuentie schilling land