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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Gudlin(g, Guid-, Goodling, n. Also: gudlyn(g, -line, -lene, guidleing, guid-, goodlyng. [Usual variants of Gulden.] A Dutch guilder. Also attrib. with steke, taill.(a) 1494 Halyb. 51.
Thir ar the steykkis of gold at John of Carkatill … hed in his purs, … xxxi ducattis, … fyfte Byris gudlins and Georgis [etc.] 15.. Aberd. B. Rec. (J).
He gave hyme in kepyng tua vnicornis & ane Philipis gudlene Ib.
Ane goldin gudlyne 1540 Lynd. Sat. 4170 (B).
To mix … fyne ducat gold with hard gudlynis [: preinis] 1576 Oppress. Orkney 63.
The Laird now compellis thame to pay the same in gudlin-taill 1647 Acts VI. (1819) 261/2.
Granted for payment of the gudlenes, pryces of the silverwork [etc.] 1690 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 516.
In the which money there is … ane goodline steick for ane rex daller(b) 1511 Treas. Acc. IV. 312.
To eik the kingis quhissill x demyis and ane gudling 1526 Misc. Spald. C. IV. 25.
The sowm of sax hunder markis all in gold, usuall moiney of Scotlalnd, excludand gudlyngis 1543 Reg. Privy S. III. 51/2.
Quatuordecem lie hornis gudlingis, tres gudlingis auri, unum annulum valoris duorum goldin gudlingis 1576 Compl. Zetl. MS. 10 b.
To pay for ilk gudling xxiiij babeis scottis 1583 Elgin Rec. I. 169.
The sowm of fourty aucht gudlingis Flanderis monie, extending to … fourtie puindis Scottis, as it cums to sax gudlingis for ilk pund greit 1604 Stirling B. Rec. I. 108.
Ressavit fra him ane obligatione … [for] ane hundreth and fiftie gudlingis, at twentie stures the gudling 1635 Edinb. Test. LVII. 180.
I am addebtit to Gilȝeane Mustard at Ansterdame in Holandis gudlinges iiij^c lxxxviij frankes(c) 1524 Rec. Earld. Orkney 423.
That Patre Johnesone … sald viij merk land of his … for iij^xx and foure lycht guidlyngis 1542 Acts & Decr. MS. I. 163 b.
The saidis Anthone and Robert … spulȝeit … fra his boy xiiij hornis guidleins, … & ane ring wourth tua goldin guidleingis 1584 Edinb. Test. XIV. 51 b.
I leue … to Abraham Walker … the soum of thrie scoir guidlingis, money of flanderis 1620 Conv. Burghs III. 115.
The soume of ane hundreth guidlings, Fleames money(d) c1650 Spalding I. 355.
The committee of estaitis of parliament had ordanit ane hundredth and fyftie thousand goodlynges, at 20 s. ilk goodling, to be payit be the … borrowis