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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Ingland, Yngland, n. [ME. Ingland (a 1300), earlier Engle land, OE. Engla land. The regular Sc. form.] England, the name of the country or the nation or state.(a) 1398 Liber Melros 488.
Trewis … betwix Ingland and Scotland ? 1405 Brit. Mus. Vespas. MS. F. VII fol. 86.
[They] saylit … til Halyeland in Ingland c1475 Wall. viii. 1380.
Ingland … has boucht it der enewch 1489 Treas. Acc. I. 112.
Joly Johne, the fule of Inglande a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 473.
Throu Ingland, thef! 1531 Bell. Boece I. viii.
Spane, Inglande, Pole 1549 Compl. 162/27.
The kyng of Ingland a1578 Pitsc. II. 107/25.
The consall of Ingland 1611-57 Mure II. 256/8.
In Northfolke in Ingland(b) 1375 Barb. xvi. 537.
Men of the cost of Yngland c1515 Asl. MS. I. 193/7.
Scottis in Scotland and Normandis in Yngland c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxx. 34.
Off all Yngland, frome Berwick to Kalice