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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1639-1678
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Box-penny, n. [Box n.] A market duty levied for the benefit of the ‘box’ of a craft or burgh. 1639 Lanark B. Rec. 132.
It sall be leisum … to exact and uplift fra ilk extraneer strainger … ane box penny, being the sowme of four pennyes [etc.] 1639 Ib.
The sowme of aught pennyes, or ane box pennie 1639 Ib.
The sowme of twa schillinges money as ane box pennie to the weill of said craft 1654 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs III. 389.
Wpon quhat ground they exact auchte penyes (quhich they call boxpenyes) of all sort of merchandice imported to the said burgh [of Haddington] 1678 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. VI. 21.
They should have … power to exact a boxpennie of every load of bread that strangers brings in
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