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Penny-male, -maill, n. Also: pen(n)ie-, pennye-, penney-, peny-, pene- and -mail(e, -mayle, -mall, -meal(l. [Penny n. and Male n.¹ 1.] The part of a rent paid in money.Chiefly sing. as a non-count noun, but also plur. in collective sense.(1) 1454 Chart. (Reg. H.) No. 335.
In the tyme of payment rynande of penymall at Wytsunday and Martymes as wynt be evyn porcionis 1483 Acta Conc. II. cxxxiii.
He payand the penny male … for the land that was sawin with his sede … efferand to the laif of the land a1500 Sir Eger 1956.
An hundred pound he may well spend Of pennie meal each year to end 1491 Acta Aud. 146/2.
As to the caponis & hereȝeld hors, becaus the said James allegiis that he has the said landis in tak for penny male alanerly [etc.] 1498 Acta Conc. II. 235.
For the wrangus withhalding fra him of the gerssoumes, cane foulis, cariage service and utheris proffittis … of his sadis landis except the penny maile of twa yeris bigane 1504 Exch. R. XII. 193 n.
Pennymaile 1523 Fam. Rose 198.
Pene mayle 1546–7 Cal. Sc. P. I. 2.
[My fishing of Brochty Craig] quhilk payis me by year of penny maill tua hundretht merkis Scottis mony 1561 Reg. Dunferm. 425.
The abacie of Dumfermling. In pennie meall anuellis customes borrow meallis fed oxin siluir lymekill maill kaynes 1562 Reg. Cupar A. I. 361.
The rentale of the abbacie of Couper in money. Item, the temporall landis thairof … of auld penney maill a1570-86 Maitland Maitl. F. cx. 9.
Sum with deir ferme ar hirreit haill That wount to pay bot penny maill c1575 Balfour Pract. 495.
Ȝit he … is not bund … to bring to his miln that part of his cornis quhilk payis his ȝeirlie fermis, his teindis, … his penie maill or cornis for sawing of the ground [etc.] 1579 Reg. Privy C. III. 221.
[£56/10/7 yearly] of the reddiest penny maill and gersum [of Thankertoun] 1581 Reg. Soltre 236.
That na beidman heirefter sall resaue pennymaill for thair sellis and chalmeris 1582–3 Perth B. Ct. 22 Feb.
The said penny maill of the Witsonday and Mertymes termes thairof last bipast extending to viij li. money 1587 Acts III. 435/1.
And this to be not only of the penny maill bot of all vther dewties that sould be payit for teynd and stok 1592–3 Cal. Sc. P. XI. 15.
[He will be worth thirty two chalders of victual] attour other penny male and gressumes(2) 1493 Maxwell Mem. I. 204.
Fyf mark ande ane half and xvi pennys of penny mail 1498 Acta Conc. II. 243.
Of pennymaile yerely xx li. 1504 Exch. R. XII. 193 n.
Defaulkande tharfor sex pund of pennymaile 1536 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 222.
Pennye maill 1541 Inchcolm Chart. 71.
Penny maile(3) plur. 1561 Musselburgh 24.
Summa of the penny meallis and annuellis within Mussilburghe