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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375
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Furbour, Fourbour, n. Also: furbeour, -bur, fourbur. [ME. fourbour (c 1415), OF. forbeor, f. forbir, to furbish.] A furbisher. (Only with personal names.) — 1296 Rotuli Sc. 35/1.
Ricardus le Furbur tenens Johannis de Soules 1327 Exchequer Rolls I. 80.
Stephano Fourbur 1329 Ib. 211.
Stephano dicto Fourbour 1344 Highland P. II. 134.
Cartam confectam inter Muriellam dictam Furbour … et Johannem dictum Furbour filium suum 1365 Rotuli Sc. 897/2.
Thomas Furbeour mercator de Scotia
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