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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1530-1570, 1621-1647

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Rolling, vbl. n.1 [ME and e.m.E. rollyng (Manning); Roll v.1] The action of entering on a roll, or enrolling, in the senses of Roll v.1 Also attrib.1530 Exchequer Rolls XVI 526.
The Lordis auditoris of chekker has supercedit the rolling of the custume comptis of Hadingtoun
1544 Aberd. B. Rec. I 196.
Conforme to the stenting and rolling thairof
1552 Reg. Privy C. I 132.
That thair be commissaris deput … to vesy the rolling of the futmen
1570 Treasurer's Accounts XII 223.
In sercheing and rolling the namis of certane personis that remanit fra the army
1621 Acts IV 619/2.
For wreating rolling and extracting of a schireffis compt
attrib. 1647 Edinburgh Testaments LXIII 215.
Twintie twa scooll inkhornes … four dussane and nyne rolling inkhornes

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