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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1489-1663
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Stand(e) bed, n. = Standand bed n. — 1489 Acts Lords Auditors 132/1.
A stand bed 1507 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II 266. 1510 Stirlings of Keir 293. 1531 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 113.
Stand bed 1548 Edinb. B. Rec. II 136.
Ane stand bed with bowster [etc.] 1565 Protocol Book of Gilbert Grote 68.
Ane stand bed witht the wnder bed thairto 1565–6 Protocol Book of Thomas Johnsoun 97.
9 stand beddis, 6 feddir beddis, 4 mat beddis 1566 Protocol Book of Thomas Johnsoun 100.
Ane stand bed of estland burd with rodis and rynnaris 1574 Edinburgh Testaments III 200b.
Tua stand beddis & ane liticant bed c1578 Maxwell Mem. I 312.
Ane fine stand bed, ane langsatill bed 1580 Reg. Privy C. III 320.
Ane stand bed of eistland tymmer with rufe and pannell of the same 1580 Reg. Privy C. III 320.
Ane stand bed with ane little hous for ane dry stule 1600 Treasurer's Accounts MS 69.
A stand bed of tymber quharin his credill ganges 1636 Thanes of Cawdor 281.
Ane stande bed of aike 1642 Edinburgh Testaments LX 152b.
Thrie stoupit stand bedis with ane littell draw bed 1649 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 538.
Seven stand beds syled and one unsyled 1663 Inv. Ld. J. Gordon's Furniture.
Within the stand bed, ane cours fethir bed, … and in the draw bed, ane pair of cours sheites … and ane blew whyt and yellow mat
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