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Quotation dates: 1523
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Ras(e, n.4 [? Reduced form of, or ? scribal error for, ME (1338) and e.m.E. rasen, raysin a wall-plate, OE ræsn.]— 1523 Treasurer's Accounts V 220.
For ij wall rasis put undre the cuppill feit, ilk ane xxiiij fute lang 1523 Ib.
v corbalis of stane put in the wallis for bering of the tua wall rasis
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