A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Brigancy, n. [f. brigan(e Brigand.] Brigandage; piracy; robbery with violence.1561 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 338.
Peter Howatt, quha wes found be the … consell as a saillar in brigacie [sic] 1576 Reg. Privy C. II. 486.
[Thai] intromettit with … his movabill gudis … be way of brigancy and maisterfull oppressioun 1584 Acts VI. 305.
Be way of hame sukkin, brigancie and forthocht fellony … [thai] slew and murtherit him 1588 Reg. Privy C. IV. 284.
Under cloude and silence of nycht … be way of brigancie [they had come] to the house of … Robert McIntailliour 1598 Ib. V. 499.
Brokin hieland men and sorners … [came] be way of briggancie [etc:] 1605 Crim. Trials II. 458.
The said George … sett vpone him, and be way of brigancie … persewit him for his slauchter
