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Safer-silver, Saiffer-silver, -silwer, n. [Safer n. and Silver n.] = Safer n. Cf. Saw-silver n. — 1602 Reg. Privy C. VI 415.
[Complaint by Patrik Scott in Glenelwart that Duncan McGregour] thifteouslie staw … fyve pece of hors and meris … worth ane hundreth merkis and in work and foillis sensyne ane hundreth merkis and in safer silver twenty pund 1603 Ib. 539.
[But he still delays to proceed against Sym (sc. in Liddesdale), and will neither pay to the complainer the value of the goods, with the] safer silver [ … nor enter Sym Ellot before the King and Council] 1631 Monteith Stewartry Ct. 24 May.
Anent the tuentie merkis money acclamit be the said Robert of the said William of saiffer siluer alledgit promittit for the said William to Jon Dow M^crobert 1633 Ib. 27 Feb.
That Maister James Henrysone … hed qwatt to Duncane M^csawle the sowme of fourtie fyve schillingis of saiffer silwer 1651 Stirling B. Rec. II 311.
Ther wes delyverit to the governor Cuninghame ane silver cup of the thesaureris own, with a quart stoup, quhilk wes recoverit a moneth therefter for which he gave in saiffer silver to a woman £3