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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Wastel(l, -al(l, -ill, n. Also: vastell-, vaistall-. [ME and e.m.E. wastel (c1300), wastell (1486), OF wastel var. of guastel, med. L. wastellus. Also in the later dial.] A variety of bread, bread ? made with the finest flour, a loaf of this bread. 1194 Palgrave Doc. & Rec. Scot. (1837) I Illustr. xxviii.]
[Habere solebant … singulis diebus … duodecim de dominicis guastellis nostris et totidem de siminellis nostris dominicis et duodecim sextercia vini(a) Assise of Bread in c1420 Bute MS 167a.
The quachet … sal wey mare then the wastel Assise of Bread in c1420 Bute MS 167a.
The lafe of the retrayt sal wey twa wastalys 14.. Acts I 312/2.
The symnel laf salbe bettyr bultyt and sal wey les na the wastel 14.. Acts I 313/2.
Qwhen the bol of qwhete is saulde for xij peniis the paste of the halpeny wastel qwhyte and wele bultyt sal wey v markis and xl peniis the lat of the halpeny wastel well bakyn and dry sal wey lxiij s. and iiij peniis 14.. Acts I 333/2.
Ilk kynd of bred as the law of burgh requeris that is to say wastell symnel alsamyn samyn bred and demayn a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 223.
Thus refreschit he his folk in grete fusioun With outin wanting in waill, wastell or wyne 1497 Dunferm. Ann. 174.
[This year the Town Council enacts that the] pace of bred be 15 unsis the wastell 1586 Ayr B. Ct. & Council Bk. 10 Oct.
That na bakister baik ony wastellis to sell 1604 St. A. Baxter Bks. 67.
That naine fra this tyme furthe sall baik ony vastellis or caikes to be cuttit in four quarteris 1672 Aberd. Trades 226.
It is statute … that no frieman of the calling give to any of their prentisses or boys any flour of their wheat baiking nor give them libertie to baik any rolls, biskettis, or wastalls for their awin use to sell through the toun 1697 Dundee B. Laws 352.
That ther should no unfre boy be within the said tread that can work any semill or wastill(b) 1584 St. A. Baxter Bks. 39.
That na baxter … baik ony vaistallis [pr. vaiscallis], bunis, caikis or fagis, to ony nychtbur sic as byis quheit … & grindis … to the grit hurt of our said craft