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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1576-1600, 1666
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Takiswoman, Tackswoman, Tax(is)woman, n. [Tak n.1 Cf. Tak(k)isman n.] A female holder of a lease (of land, etc., esp. teinds (Te(i)nd n.)). 1576 Crawford Mun. Invent. II 105 (19 July).
[Payment of teinds to Countess of Crawford] tackswoman to ane venerabill clerk Mr. Johne Lindesay channoun of Brechin 1579 Edinburgh Testaments VII 291b.
Teind schaues of the personage of Memmure perteining to the said vmquhile nobill lady as takiswoman thairof 1583 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. I 122.
Having acknowledged herself once to be tackswoman, she behoved to remove after the ish of the said tack 1597 Paisley B. Rec. 200.
Takis woman 1585 Exchequer Rolls XXI 583.
Taxiswoman 1600 Reg. Privy C. VI 665.
[Dame Annas Douglas, Countess of Ergyle, … ] taxwoman of the assyse hering of the west seas 1666 Banff Field C. (1903-4) 39.
The court of the barronie of Gartly perteining in lyfrent to Dame Marie Grant, … as principall takiswoman theroff
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