10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KNAVESHIP»
Discover the use of
knaveship in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
knaveship and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The decisions of the Court of Session: from its first ...
... knaveship, sucken, and thirlage ; and, last of all, produced sundry acts of the
Town Courts for 150 years back, viz. beginning at 1555, enacting penalties
against the abstracters and contraveners, to prove their use and possession; and,
...
Scotland. Court of Session, William Maxwell Morison, 1811
2
The decisions of the Lords of council & session, in the most ...
Thac the destroying of their Mutj was most unwarrantable, upon pretence that it
was more nor a Lippy, or a fourth part of a Peck, because they had been in
immemorial Possession of the Knaveship by that Measure. And the Town
alledging ...
3
Supplement to the Dictionary of the decisions of the Court ...
As to the second, the decreet in 1637, it cannot be reputed or looked upon as a
settling of the quantity of the knaveship, that not being in the least controverted
there ; only the Lords, in the decernature, not understanding the term muttie, did ...
Scotland. Court of Session, Mungo Ponton Brown, William Maxwell Morison, 1826
... Queysdall, Harrow, Newtown, and Banckhead, extending in haill to Sixteen
Penny, One Farthing, ane Octo and Half Octo Land, with the Ports and Harbour of
Old Wick, and Miln of Charitie, Miln Lands, Multures, Shucken, Knaveship ...
5
Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society
... wheat, oats, bear, beans, pease, malt, and all other sort of grain which suffer
fire and water, within the said subjects or any part of the barony, at our mills in the
Water of Leith, and shall pay the multures, knaveship, and other duties of the mill
...
Hawick Archaeological Society, 1863
6
The Pirate: In Three Volumes
How mony a time b;ave:l heard you hellthe-cat with -a|_,ild_ Edie flapper, the
miller at Grindleburn, and wi' his_veny knapre too, about in-town and out-town
multnres—lqck, gowpeu, and knaveship, and a' the lave o't; and now naething
less ...
"Ivanhoe" Author of "Waverley" (The, etc), 1822
7
Waverley Novels: ¬The pirate ; [1]
How mony a time have I heard you bell-the-cat with auld Edie Netherstane, the
miller at Grindleburn, and wi' his very knave too, about in-town and out-town
multures-—lock, gowpen, and knaveship, and a' the lave o't; and now naething
less ...
8
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
... to maintain his ground upon the estate by regular payment of mail- duties, kain,
arriage, carriage, dry multure, lock, gowpen, and knaveship, and all the various
exactions now commuted for money, and summed up in the emphatic word rent.
How mony a time have I heard you bell- the-cat with auld Edie Happer, the miller
at Grindleburn, and wi' his very knave too, about in-town and out-town multures
— lock, gowpen, and knaveship, and a' the lave o't ; and now nae- thing less will
...
... to some domestic animals. Kiver, cover. Knacks, trifles for ornament ; nick-nacs.
Knapping, (gnapping,) English, affecting to speak fine without knowing how.
Knave bairn, man child. Knave, servant ; millers boy. Knaveship, mill-dues paid ...
