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Quotation dates: 1621
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Wrye band, n. (?) — 1621 Edinburgh Testaments LI 63.
Andro Scott, burgess … Item fyve inkhornis at viij s. the pece … aucht dosone of tobaco pypis at tua schillingis the dosone … Item sevin irnis to wrye bandis at vj s. the pece
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