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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1575-1646
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Stra bus(c)hat(t, -art, Stra(y) buschet(t, n. (Var. of trabuschatt, a (small) set of scales (Trabuschet(t n.) with prosthetic s.) — 1575 Dumfries B. Ct. 21 March.
Ane pair of stra bushats … price xviij d. 1575–6 Dumfries B. Ct. 20 Jan.
Ane pair of stra buschatts … price xiiij d. 1592 Edinburgh Testaments XXV 28.
xij pair of strabuschettis at xx s. the pair 1597 Edinburgh Testaments XXX 218b.
Thrie pair of stray buschettis at xvj s. the paire 1646 Edinburgh Testaments LXII 186b.
Ane pair of gold strabuscharts
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