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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1377, 1444-1559
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Bordland, n. Also: boirland. [ME. bordland (Bracton, c 1250).] ? Land providing supplies for the lord's table. 1377 Misc. Spald. C. V. 250.
Quatuor bovatas jacentes in le Bordland in villa de Langforgund 1444 Exchequer Rolls V. 171.
De firmis terre de Bordland de Creif 1444Ib.
De Bordland de Balach 1456 Misc. Bann. C. III. 98.
Quhether the said Iohn wil have it [the land] in Kynnard, or of the bord-land of Skelbow 1502 Orkney Rentals i. 18.
Le bow eedem insule … but scat, quia boirland 1503 Ib. 30.
All the Ile of Hoy is of the ald erldome & bordland, quhilk payit nevir scat 1509–10 Breadalbane Doc. (Reg. H.) No. 37.
Kyllyn, … wyth the borde land of Kyllemalle 1559 Reg. Privy S. MS. XXX. 19 b.]
[The aucht mark land … of Bordland … in the parrochin of Gilestoun
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