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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1443
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Towel, n.2 (? Erron.) — c1443 Craven Ch. in Orkney III 109.
[The inquest laments the loss of charters, evidents, and documents through fire and spulȝie, and] defalt of ane castell-house, in the quhilk the said evidents, chartors, and other towels of the cuntre myt been sowerlie kepit
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