A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1549-1595, 1652
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Burrowstoun, n. Also: burrowis-, bur(r)ous-, burros-; burrow-, burrowe-. [Later variant of Borowstoun. The origin of the s is not clear.] A borough.(a)1549 Complaynte of Scotland 45/13.
Al vthir staitis … that remanis in tryumphand citeis and burroustounis 1549 Ib. 87/3.
Dayly destroyand ȝour feildis, villagis and buroustounis 1558 Maitland Maitland Folio MS xvi. 19.
All burrowis tounis, euerilk man ȝow prayis To mak bain fyris, fairseis and clerk playis 1572 Satirical Poems xxxiii. 266.
Quhair sic wer wont brauely to mak tham bowne With lord or laird to ryde to burrowis towne 1586 Bk. Univ. Kirk II. 659.
That, in the cheife burrowstounes, ther be teaching ordinar 4 tymes in the weik a 1595 Skene Celtic Sc. III. 439.
Boyd is aucht mile lang, … quhairin stands ane great burrowstown callit Rosa(b)a1578 Pitsc. II. 215/31.
Siclyk in all burrow townis of his dominioun he pat men of weir in thame 1652 Lamont Diary 50.
All the burrowe-towns of the shyre of Fyfe
