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Rental(l)er, -el(l)ar, -aillar, n. Also: rantal- and -are, -aer, -air; -ir. [Rental(e n. or v.] One who held land by rental right, i.e. by virtue of being entered in the rental of the proprietor, and whose title consisted in a copy of such entry or a similar document. b. Applied particularly, perh. (esp. in later use) exclusively, to kindly tenants once legal recognition of their right to tenancy had been granted on the basis of the documentary evidence available in rentals.See the note on kindly tenant, Kindly adj. 5, also Rental(e n. 1 and 3 and Rental(e v.Chiefly or only in legal or official documents and records.Also as the second element of a compound in fewrentalar.(1) 1554 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I 157.
Rentalair ?1557 Sc. Hist. Rev. I 460.
Be consent and ourgevine of … his sistyr, last rentalaer thairof 1557 Digest Justiciary Proc. B 141.
Ane of the rentallaris of Dalsangane mylne 1561 Irvine Mun. II 13.
The … comonitie of … Irwin … hais interit rentallit admittit and rasavit Hew Kyill … lauchfull kyndlie and just tennand of lyne and bluid in and to the … land of Gallowmur. … The sades … Jhone and Thomas … wer lauchfull rentalleris and possessionares of the foirnamit landes … and never sauld nor disponit the rycht tharof 1566 Treas. Acc. XII 36. 1580 Galloway P.
Me Williame Gordoune … fewar fear and rentalir of the landis vndirwrittin 1580 Prot. Bk. A. Millar 72b.
Williame Hwme … rentaler and kyndlie tennent … of the rig of land eftir mentionat 1580–1 Reg. Privy C. III 351.
The pure tennentis and fermorars of … Dunbar … have bene rentalers and auld possessoures of thair malingis and stedingis … and hes had thair rentalis thairof … for the tyme grantit … for ane certane sowme of entrie and payment of the auld quantitie of victuall 1617 Orkney Rentals ii 150.
The fewaris and rentalleris of the 62 d. land in the parochin of Orpher taxt to L. 31 1627 Rep. Parishes 87.
The rentalleris thairof payand entress gressum, harieage and carieage with kane foullis(b) 1554 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I 157.
Rentellair 1555 Ib. 159.
Rentelair 1563 Dumfries B. Ct. fol. 196b.
Burges of Drumfres and rentellar of the lands wnder writtin for the sovme of nyne punds vsuale money of Scotland 1577 Glasgow Chart. II 554. 1583 Montg. Suppl. 302.
Fra the handis of the fewaris, fermoraris, takismen, tennentis, rentellaris, and possessouris of the saidis landis(c) 1553 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I 152.
Rentaillit in to xij s. land … vacand be the deces of his … fathir, last rentaillare tharof 1560 Ib. 174.
Rentaillar 1563 Ib. 175.
Rentaillair(2) 1557 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I 166.
Be deces of … his mothyr, last rentalar thairin 1563 Ib. 179.
Last rentallare thair(3) 1556 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I 162.
Rentalare 1565 Reg. Privy C. I 358.
Gif ony malaris, takkismen, rentalaris or commonis sal happin to be slane a1571 Soc. Ant. Chart. No. 59.
The parochinaris of the said paroche kirk tenentis takkismen rentellaris occupiaris and vtheris addettit inpayment thairof 1575 Reg. Privy S. VII 437/2.
Power … to enter and infeft all and sindrie frie tennentis, waschellis, fewaris, rentallaris and utheris heretable possessouris 1577–8 Glasgow Chart. II 559.
That ilk ane of the rentalaris, or wedowis, maye have … thair parte, effering to thair rentall, be cutt or casting of cavillis, as it salhappin to fall and be devydit be sycht of the suorne men of the warde and ane mettar 1578 Exch. R. XX 370 n.
It will pleis your lordschip resaif this berar as rentalar in our soverane lordis regester 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Cvrialitas.
For bruiking … of the landes and for … out-putting and inputting of tennentes … as gif he were proprietare, lyfe-rentar, tackes-man or rentaller 1598 Paisley B. Rec. 216. 1627 Rep. Parishes 84.
Payis everie merk land tuel lib. stock and teynd, being ather old rentalleris, or gif new entereris payes gersomes Ib. 87. a1633 Hope Major Pract. I 269. 1640 Kirkcudbr. Min. Bk. 95 (see Rental(e v. b passive (2)). 1666 Charles II in WodrowHist. (1828) II 15.
Where they have tacks, or are rentallers 1681 Stair Inst. ii ix § 21.
A rental setting the keeping of a house, yard and others, to the rentaller and his heirs, as kindly tenants, was not found null by the rentaller's suffering the decay of the house and yard 1698 Fountainhall Decis. II 24.
His father being never heritor, but only a kindly rentaller during his life(4) 1576 Exch. R. XX 368 n (see Few n. 3).
Fewrentalaris 1578 Ib. 374.
Resaif thir beraris … as fewrantalaris … of the landis of Auchtirmuktie … quhilk pertenit in fewrental of befoir to Nicol Dawsoun