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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Tracht, p.p. [? Cf. Trachled p.p.] Of a person: Forced to confess something. — 1561 Aberd. B. Rec. I 333.
The baillies … inquyrit … gif he confessit the same for feir, or gif he wes compellit be ony vtheris to confes the same … [he] maid fayth in jugement, in lykwayis, that he wes newir tracht nor compellit thairto, bot maid the same confessioun for the zeill of justice
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