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Quotation dates: 1494, 1554-1555
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Sukkin, Swken, n.2 (?) — 1494 Treasurer's Accounts I 253.
Item for ane gret mast, ane ra, ane swken, a pygy mast; and thir rais and the takling with ane mers … and for ane pomp and other small graith 1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II 313.
The stane wark of the Bulwark … to the greit boit to bring hame pece of hewn wark, and the twa greit lang stanis that ar sukkin to the greit ryngs
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