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Quotation dates: 1473-1474, 1593-1639
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Here-, Heir-being, vbl. n. [ME. here-being, -beyng (1377).] — 1473–4 Treasurer's Accounts I. 54.
Parchment that the gret endentouris wes writin on at the here being of ambaxatouris 1593 Maxwell Mem. II. 169.
Heiring tell of ȝour heir being 1639 Aberd. B. Rec. III. 159.
The soumes of money deburset be him … , at the late heir being of the southland armie
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