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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1684

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Black ward, n. —1684 McKenzie Instit. (1684) 92 (J).
Black ward is when a vassal holds immediately ward of the King, and a subvassal holds ward of that vassal. This is called Black ward or ward upon ward (Cf. John Erskine of Carnock An Institute of the Law of Scotland in the order of Sir G. Mackenzie's Institutions of that Law (1773) ii. iv. § 4.)

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