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Indwellar(e, -duellar(e, -dweller, n. Also: -dwellaire, -dueller, -dwaller,-duallar, -duollar, -dolar. [ME. indweller (1382).] A resident, an inhabitant.Very common, esp. in the spelling induellar, in the 15th and 16th centuries.(a) 1428 Wemyss Chart. 56.
Treis of the wod … to the oyse … of the induellaris wythin the said lordschip 1444 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 12.
Ony nichbour or induellar of this burgh 1456 Hay I. 25/29.
Sorrowe mote fall till all induellaris of the erde 1472 Edinb. Chart. 135.
Alswele the out burges … of the fredom … as induellaris and inhabitantis thareof c1500 Crying of Play 23.
Prowest, balleis, officeris, And honorable induellaris … Of all this fair towne 1533 Boece viii. ix. 270.
Saxouns … in that regioun maid thare habitacioun, excluding … the ald induellaris 1545 Reg. Great S. 758/1.
The nerrest of the faderis kyn, … beand fremen and induellar within the said burgh 1571 Lanark B. Rec. 58.
Na persone awcht to be ellectat and chessing provest … bot only ane induellar 1622-6 Bisset II. 201/6.
Caria, induellaris quhairof war maist famos for schipping 1658 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 176.
William Findlay, induellar in Aberdeen(b) 1462 Cal. Reg. H. Chart. MS. Suppl.
Na burges nor indwellar of the burgh of Montrose 1556 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 252.
[They] ar all indwellaris and inhabitaris of ȝour said town 1576 Oppress. Orkney 68.
Edward of Odsta, indwellaire in Fetlair 1587 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 11.
The magistratis … of the burgh quhair thay ar indwellars 1614 Ib. 122.
The skipper and the companie … ar now indwellaris in this our burgh 1649 Misc. Spald. C. V. 230.
Thomas Duncan, … and George Thomas, indwellars in Bardshillok(c) 1561 Crim. Trials I. 416.
The crame of William Speir, indweller in the said burgh 1589 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 11.
Als weill vpoun the … extranearis as upoun the indwellers 1600 Hamilton Facile Tr. 280.
The indwellers of Edinburgh knawis how thair belman … sayd to the assistand people, whair at wounder ȝe? 1639 Dundonald Par. Rec. 444.
Margaret Muir, indweller with Jonet Dickie in Burnesyde 1677 Stitchill Baron Ct. 82.
Ane complaint given in … in Stitchell against Robert Lamb indweler ther(d) 1557 Digest Justiciary Proc. B. 139.
That the induelleris thairof sould not be replegit 1567 Ib. F. 17.
The apprehensioun of Johnne Donaldsoun, indueller in … Dundee 1596 Dalr. I. 170/14.
To delyuer the Britonis quha war induelleris in the country 1635 Elgin Rec. II. 230.
That ilk master of familie be countable for the induellers in ther landis 1676 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 295.
George Thomsone, indueller in the said burghe(e) 1570 Lanark B. Rec. 48.
Ilk burges and induollar of the toun 1571 Ib. 59.
The provest wes choussing ane ouittounsman and na induollar 1574 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 16.
Burgessis, craftismen, induall[er]is of our said burgh 1685 Dundee B. Laws 554.
One John Duncan, indualler in the Hill of Dundie(f) 1627 Orkney Rentals iii. 72.
Any rowmes in the paroche so burdened with indwallers ... that the land may nocht susteyne them(g) 1525 Wigtown B. Ct. 202 b.
And to remayne in the thovne as indolaris dois to keip scot and lot 1531 Ib. 259 b.
That nayne intromet vith the said butter quhil the indolaris of the bruch be seruyt