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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Wedsetting, -yng, vbl. n. Also: vedsettyng, wodsetting, wadsetting, -yng, vidsettyng. [Late ME wedsettynge (Prompt. Parv.).] The action of pledging (land, etc.) (Wedset(t v.); the pledge itself (Wedset(t n. 1).(a) 1400 Maxwell Mem. 140.
At the forsayd Schyr Jon … sal mak alienacioun na wedsettyng of na land … na of na thyng at langis to … the sone … in fee and herytag 1422 Stirlings of Keir 208.
Hafand … tha for sayid landis … fra me … in nayme of wed settyng, perpetuely, with outyng ony gane callyng 1456 Misc. Bann. C. III 98.
I gif … to the barnes [etc.] … the landis that I have in wedsettyng of the said Lord Erlis 1461 Newburgh B. Ct. 6a.
Quhatsumeuer Davy Andersone dis vyth his land in sellyng or vedsettyng [etc.] 1494 Loutfut MS 114a.
Wedsetting [Lindsay MS 8a, wodsetting] 1499–1500 Acta Conc. II 362.
[That the said lands] war set for ferme before the wedsetting of thame 1531 Renfrew Arch. Coll. I 151.
The saidis lordis … interdytis the said Jhone … fra all wedsetting and impignoration thairof 1654 Lamont Diary 72.
No money lent, or bargaine in sailling or wedsetting of land … was to be allowed(b) a1586 Lindsay MS 8a (see (a) above).(c) 1419 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 299.
The quhilk forsaidis wadsettingis … I … confermys 1428 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 461.
The landis … for the said sovm of fourty pundis to be haldin and had to the persounis befor writtin with all commoditeis and fredomis as wadsettyng quhil he … have fully payit the said fourty pundis 1553 Reg. Privy C. I 140.
Wadsetting(d) 1428 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 271.
Thai payande … in maner and forme as is contenyt in the lettres of vidsettyng