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Sellin(g, vbl. n. Also: -yn(g, -eyng, -eine, -eyne, seling, sailling, salling. [ME sullinge (a1325), sillynge (c1440), e.m.E. sellinge; Sel(l v.] Selling, or an instance of this.(1) 1398 MacRae Early Sc. Texts No. 5.
Of the sellyng of the forsayde land 14.. Burgh Laws c. 96 (A). 14.. Acts I 12/2.
That a common and evyn wecht … be kepit in bying and selling 1476 Prestwick B. Rec. 27.
For the wrangwis disponyn and sellin of Jok Clerkis salt to Jok Broun 1498 Halyb. 106.
In lecoris at the sellin 1520–1 Prestwick B. Rec. 49.
Sellyn 1524 Wigtown B. Ct. fol. 155b.
For … selling with fals missour 1534 Dunferm. Reg. Ct. 115.
Allegit of selleyng of xx sheip be hym of his nechbouris 1535–6 Dunferm. Reg. Ct. 128.
Selleyne 1538 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 89.
That the cole sellares sitt thair with thair coillis alykwayes for selling thairof 1543 Soc. Ant. III 62.
In witnes of the quhilk thing to thir my present dispositioun and sellin subscriuit with my hand my seill is affixit 1564 Lanark B. Rec. 32.
Sellin 1569 Rec. Earld. Orkney 128.
Chartouris maid be … hir lauchfull airis, off the selleine … and away putteine off the half off the land 1592 Lanark B. Rec. 107.
For selling to tham the land of Newmanis 1622 Misc. Bann. C. II 248.
In my tred and vocatioun of buikis selling 1698 Elgin Rec. II 321.
That William Bannerman for selling his wife and Peter Morisone for buying her both should … be rebuked [etc.](b) 1604 Dundonald Par. Rec. 52.
Seling(c) 1654 Lamont Diary 72.
Sailling or wedsetting of land(d) 1637 Dumbarton B. Rec. 54.
Robert Glen, messenger to … discharge ae Irischman … fra salling grien herring or paking the same(2) 1478–9 Acta Aud. 75/2.
As was prufit befor the lordis be a lettre of selling of the said cornis 1492–3 Acta Conc. 259/2.
A confirmatioune incorporande a charter of selling of the landis of Schethynrawak 1498–9 Reg. Privy S. I 41/1.
A letter of the selling of the Egill … to Lord Setoun 1603 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I 226.
Efter the … effect of this our present chartour of fre seling