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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lawland-man, Lauland-, n. [Lawland 3.] An inhabitant of the Lowlands of Scotland (Lawland n. 2). c1515 Asl. MS. I. 243/26.
James the secund … passit till Edinburgh … with ane ost of lawland men 1503 Acts II. 241/2.
That Ergile … hald the justice are tharof in Perth, … sa that euirilk heland man & lauland mane may … have justice 1566 Argyll Fam. Lett. 5.
The souirteis … mon be lawland men and not of the gretast of oure nobilitie 1572 D. Chambre in Sc. Hist. Rev. XXV. 170.
Et tous ceux parlans la langue devant mentionné … son dits en Escossois lauland men, en Francois gens de pays bas 1587 Acts III. 463/2.
That all sic notorious thevis as wer borne in … the landis sumtymes callit Debetable … salbe removit out of the Inlandis quhair thei ar plantit … except thair landislordis … will becum souirties … to mak thame ansrable to the law as the lawland and obedient men Camden Remaines of a Greater Worke (1605) 14.]
[The East and South of Scotland, which call themselves the Lawland-men, speake the English tongue varied onely in Dialect, as descended from the English-Saxons: and the old Scottish, which is the verie Irish, is vsed onely by them of the West, called the Hechtland-men c1650 Spalding II. 443.
That the Marques of Argile wes enterit in Lochquhaber with ane army of 3000 men, hielanders and lawlandmen