A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pais-penny, -penné, n. Also: pas-. (Appar., one of a number of coins found as treasure: cf. hurd pennyis, Hurd n. 1 attrib. Though the sense suggests a relationship with Pose n., the change of vowel is inexplicable.) —1493 Justiciary Rec. MS. (Reg. H.) f. 14.
Per furtina [sic] concelatione et rapina xxx le pas pennys partinentium domino regi inventorum in ecclesia de Mynto 1502 Ib. 63.
Robertus Lofthous in Lyndene convictus de concelatione certorum le pais penneis ad valore x mercarum 1531 Wigtown B. Ct. 249 b.
The geyr that McCoye wyf clemys in the fyrst xiiij Inglis [g]rottis viij pais penneis tre syluer ryngis [etc.]
