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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Ourlard, n. Also: oure-, owr-, or- and -larde. [Our prep. 11, Lard n.¹] = Ourlord n.Chiefly in early texts.a. 1389 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 16.
All the landys the qwhylkys the forsayde Scyr Dauy … resignyt vp in hys ourelardys handys 1400 Charter (Reg. H.) Honess Doc. No. 1.
Als freli … as I … haldis tha forsaid landis of my our lardis c1420 Wynt. viii. 285.
This kyng … That kynrik held … Of [a] grettare kyng … That wes his oure-lard [v.rr. -lord(e] 1427 Melville Chart. 21. 1437 8th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 307.
In the handis of … a mychti lorde and my ourlarde of the saide landis, Schere Vatter of Halyburtoun 1544 Reg. Privy S. III. 120/1.
Walter Stewart of the Crag, ourlard to the lard of Blakwodb. 1385 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 8.
Sir Patrick Gray … orlard of the landys of Lytilton 1400 Ib. No. 48.
[To] gyf vp in the owr lardis hand the ten markis worth of land 1402 Ib. No. 55.
He sal resigne the half of the said landis til the oure larde of thaim c1420 Wynt. viii. 294.
This ilk kynryk, thus wacand The oure-lard tuk it in till his hand Ib. 816. 1426 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 202.
I sal mak playne resignacione of al the … said landes … frely in the ourelardis hand 14.. Quon. Attach. lvi.
In defalt of payment of that annual erd & stane aw to be tane be the ourlard at the hed courtis