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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1507-1508, 1600-1699
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Fundling, n. Also: fundlynge, funling, fundlin(e. [ME. fundeling (c 1440), foundling (a 1300).] A foundling. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xii. 114.
Scho let hym wyt … That he wes but a fundlynge a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 38.
Wan-fukkit funling [M. fundling], that natour maid ane yrle a1605 Montg. Flyt. 428 (T).
As we have fund in this feild this fundlin forfarne 16.. Herries Mem. Q. Mary 103.
William the Fundlin escapt also with the Queen 1689 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 515.
For keeping ane fundline betwixt Lambmass and Hallowday
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