A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1527-1528, 1615, 1694
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Outfredome, -freidom, -friedom, n. [Fredom(e n. 4. Also in the later dial. of Orkney.] In Orkney: ? The right to a share of the common pasture lying outside the arable land of a township; also ? this common pasture or an individual share of it. —1527–8 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I. 109.
Commoditeis, asiamentis and fredomys … infredome and outfredome, with all maner of rychtyis pertinentis … tyll the said thre markis of land [Clouston, Stenness] 1615 Orkney & Shetl. Ct. Bks. 95.
Mr. James Pitcairne and the said Ursilla … mynding to appropriat the comontie thairof to thair saidis landis of Urafirth maist wrangouslie dykit in the out fredome and comontie pertening to … Hildisweik 1694 Sc. Hist. Rev. XVII. 24.
After considering the out freidoms of the said toun [Kirbister in Orphir, Orkney], they [the inquest] … fynd that Breiknes haveing the uppa of the rendall and laboured land ought first to be payed of the out friedom
