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Quotation dates: 1672-1684
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(Porterage,) Porturadg, Portrage, n. (e.m.E. and late ME porterage (1437–8), porter-work or a fee for this.) — 1672 Haigs of Bemersyde 475.
Of portrages 04 00 00. It. on wather glase 01 00 00 1684 Misc. Bann. C. III 341.
To porturadg of the two great caisses £0 7 0
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