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Quotation dates: 1451-1636
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Ridar, Rydar, -er, n.2 Also: ridd-; red- and -are. Also erroneous form: rydal. [MDu. rider(e, MLG rîder, ryder, ME and e.m.E. rider; Ridar n.1] A gold coin, formerly current in Flanders and Holland; a Scots gold coin, with an image of the king on horseback on its obverse, first struck by James III, and apparently issued until 1601. Also attrib.(1) 1451 Acts II 40/1.
The ridaris of Flanderis havande course than for vj s. viij d. 1482 (1482–3) Reg. Great S. 326/1.
Summam 300 merc. in le Scottis ridaris auri 1491 Treasurer's Accounts I 167.
Fiftene Flemis ridaris, fiftene schilling the pece 1503 Ib. II 387.
To the cofferar of Ingland, lxxx Scottis ridaris 1515 Yester Wr. 119.
The Scottis ridar current at the making hereof for 26 sh.(b) 1482 (1482–3) Reg. Great S. 326/1.
300 merkis in Scottis redaris of gold(2) 1456 Acts (1597) i 39b.
The rider, the crowne, the dolphin [to be cried] to elleven shillings 1467 Ib. (1814) II 88/2.
The salute, the lewe and the ridar sall haif cours in this realme of our mone to the valour and equivalence of the cours at thaj haf in Flandris. That is to say … the ridar to xxiiij s. 1497 Treasurer's Accounts I 335.
Ane ferdin of ane ridare 1503 Ib. II 217.
To mak ane unicorn of gold to the king, thre ridaris of wecht 1531 Ib. V 423.
To Pate Lindesay, goldsmith, to be ane cheneȝe to the king, xxxj ridaris and ane half 1539–40 Ib. VII 293. 1549 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. II 217.
iii riders … ilk rider kepand the angell nobill vecht, xxx sh. 1554 Protocol Book of Gilbert Grote 4.
Ane rider extending to xx s. 1567 Edinburgh Testaments I 51b.
Ane rydar price thairof xxx s.(b) 1489 Acts Lords Auditors 130/1.
Twa riddaris 1507–8 Treasurer's Accounts IV 93.
xviij ridderis j Hary noble to mak ane pece of say to the samyn(c) 1636 T. Hope Diary 38.
And als gevin to him jc lb. of rydals of gold for his journeyattrib. 1608 Paterson Ayr & Wigton II 329.
Ane ryder crovne, pryce sax pund
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