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Quotation dates: 1480-1612, 1670-1698
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Rud(e)-loft, n. Also: ruid- and -laft. Also north-east variants: reid loft, red loft, read loft. [ME and e.m.E. rodeloft, rudeloft (north., 1399) ‘a loft or gallery forming the head of a rood-screen’ (OED). See also Laft n.](a) 1480 Peebles B. Rec. I 186.
And to his successoris that sall sing mes and mak seruice at the rud alter in Sant Androis kyrk … in the rud loft 1502 Treasurer's Accounts II 244.
To the kingis offerand in the rude loft of Carail xiiij s. 1518–19 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. II 352.
The tovne … ordanit the masteris of kirk-werk to translat thair funt and passag to the rudloft 1533 Boece 601b.
The ymage of the crucifixe falling fra the rude loft 1559 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I xc.
A vaill for the ruid loft 1559–60 Edinb. B. Rec. III 62.
To Sir James Crawfurde chaplane of the rude loft 1586 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. II 388.
Thai … wroyt the bak of the rud loft 1612 Fife Synod 53.
Ruid laft(b) 1670 Elgin Rec. II 308.
That place of the quire where the old staire stood which entred to the read loft in the old church 1671 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 273.
The reid loft, as also the mariadge [etc.] … dasks in the new church to be coverit with cushoons 1698 Elgin Rec. II 323.
They [sc. the tailors and weavers] are allowed to make use of the timber of the old red loft to help build theirs
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