A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1592-1612
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Penny stane, Pennestane, Pennistone, attrib. (e.m.E. pennystone (1551–2) of penistone, a kind of coarse woollen cloth named after Penistone in the W. Riding, where it was made.) —1592–3 Exchequer Rolls XXII. 309.
Pennestane grene freeis 1593 Edinburgh Testaments XXV. 50 b.
Nyne elnes freis callit penny stane freis at xvj s. the elne 1612 Reg. Privy C. IX. 728.
Pennistone freis the eln xl s.
