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Quotation dates: 1576
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Varding, n. [ON ? and þing.] A court of some sort. — 1576 Orkney Oppress. 71.
Nicholaus Johnsoun … said to Harie Bruce, that quhen he votit upon the assyis, he had mair mynd to wyn geir nor he had of his saull. And Harie Bruce takand witnes of his speiking summound him to the Varding, to underlie the law for the same
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