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Quotation dates: 1435-1603, 1661
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Lentrinware, Lentren-, Lentro(u)n-, Lentirn-, Lenternwar(e, n. Also: lentrene-, lentryn(e-, leyntryn-, lentyrn- and -var(e, -wair(e, -vair, -veyr; lentirware, lenterwar. [Appar. f. Lentrin n. and Ware n. (goods). Only Sc. Common only in the 15th and 16th centuries.] A collective term for a species of lambskin. Also once plur. Also comb. with -skin.According to Jam. (s.v. Lentrenvare), ‘those [skins] of lambs that have died soon after being dropped (in Lentron or spring); still called Lentrins.’ The value of a quantity of ‘lentrinware’ was appar. always less than half that of the same number of ‘futefells’ (Futefell n.); as for the latter, a fitfall (in the mod. dialect) was ‘the skin of a lamb between the time of castration and that of being weaned’ (G. Watson Roxburghshire Wordbook (1923), s.v.).(a) 1435 Exchequer Rolls IV. 604.
Et de vij s. vj d. de custuma septingentarum et sexaginta pellium que dicuntur lentrinware1438 Ib. V. 21, 23.
Lentrynware 1442 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 397.
That na man by woll skynnis derar than x d., schorlinges vi d., scaldynes iii d., the dusane of lentrinwar viii d., the dusane of futfellis ii s. 1452 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. I. 4.
Absoluti et quicti … ab omni solutione custume salis et pellium … volgariter dictarum skorlingis, skaldingis, futefell, lentrinwar, lambskynnis, todskynnys [etc.] 1455 Exchequer Rolls VI. 11; etc.
Lentrynware 1474 Ib. VIII. 253.
Lentrynwair 1493 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 49.
Thingis grantit to the reformacioun of the queir … Johne Lammyntone, v s. or j quarter of jc lentrinvair 1493 Ib.
Lentrinvar 1496 Halyb. 115.
Sald the futfell for 28 s. the c … .Item sald the [350] lentrynvar by the hop for 20 s. 1554 Exchequer Rolls XVIII. 261.
Lentrynware(b) 1475 Exchequer Rolls VIII. 314.
[Lambskins called] lentreneware 1572 Ib. XX. 97.
[4500 lambskins and] lentrenvair 1592 Acts III. 580/2.
Frie … of … custume of … lentrenvare [etc.]comb. 1535 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. XV. (J).
vij dossund of futfaill skynnis & vj dossane of lentrene veyr skynnis(c) 1466 Exchequer Rolls VII. 425.
[300] lentrounware 1570 (c 1650) Dundee B. Laws 113.
That thaire be taken up … fra ewerie merchant … in Danskeine … [for] two hundreth futfall or wheit leather ane spruiss schillingis, fywe hundreth lentron waire or lamb-skinne ane spruiss schillingis 1578 Exchequer Rolls XX. 293.
[16s. 8d. of 1000 lambskins, 8s. 4d. of 100] lentron wair 1580 Edinburgh Testaments VIII. 166.
Thrie hundreth & ane half of futefaill lamb skynnis price xxxv li … . ten hundreth lentroun wair price fiftie pund 1603 Reg. Great S. 515/1.
All custumes paying of … lentroun-wair [etc.] 1661 Acts VII. 253/2.
[Bullion act:] Lamb skines ilk tuo thousand, tuo ounces; lentronware ilk thousand, tuo ouncesplur. 1586 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I. 213.
Exemptionis from … customes of … schorlingis, scaldingis, futefallis, lentroun wairis, lambes, toddis(d) 1452 Exchequer Rolls V. 494.
Et non onerat se de aliqua custuma aliarum pellium dictarum skaldingis seu lentirneware, nec de panno laneo 1456 Ib. VI. 124.
Lentyrnware 1510 Glasg. Dioc. Reg. II. 390.
Calling of him before ane wther juge, for half ane hundredth lentern waire(e) 1474 Exchequer Rolls VIII. 259.
Lentirware 1492 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 47.
A lettre of the freing of the custum of lenterwar, futevel and other sic
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