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Trewall, -ell, -yll, Treuel, Truall, Truel, Trewli-, n. [Reduced form of St. Rule, whose feast-day was celebrated on the second Tuesday of October.] Only attrib. with day, evin, fair(e. — 1595 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 532.
Terris de Syde … cum colmeto fori vulgo nuncupati Truelfair 1609 Inverurie B. Ct. 13 May.
William Jak is admittit cowmond hird for ane ȝeir to keip bayth scheip & nowlt quhill Michallday nixt or Trewyll day nixt … [and] sall haiff for ilk nowlt four merkis meill … & that at thre term tymes viz.:- ane thred at Midsymmer ane thred at Lammes & the lest thred at Trewliday 1632 Prognostication.
Trewell Faire, sainct Dennice, in Ayton and Pebles, 9 day [Oct.] 1698 Memorandum anent Justiciary Court Matters (Menzies Castle papers).
About Trewall evin being Mundayis night this tenth day of October 1698 … upon Mundayis night before Truall fair 1698 Misc. 3 Spald. C. II 113.
His son … did streack a pleugh upon the mains of Glenbucket about Bartholday 1698 & till the storm of snow did stop the pleughs going after Treuelday