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Quotation dates: 1399-1516
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Distroublance, -ans, n. Also: -aunce, dys-, distrowblans; distrowbylance, -belans, distroubil(l)ance, -belance; dystroblans, distrobillans, -blance; distroybulance, -troiblans. [f. Distrouble v. Cf. Distrublance.] Disturbance, troubling, molestation.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 740.
Machore … saylyt the se But distrowbylance in dais thre 1409 Exchequer Rolls IV. p. ccxi.
Gif ony of thair sonnis … makis ony riot, debate or distroubillaunce within the cuntre 1439 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 49.
The forsaide Ione … sal hafe & joise the forsaide landis … withoutin let, perturbacion, harme, or distroubelance of me 1467 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 403.
That thai sall nevir … mak herschyp, slawchter, or dystrowbelans one the tother 1516 Fife Sheriff Ct. 48.
In the actioune … tueching the distroubillance & bloidwite allegeit(b) c1420 Wynt. viii. 2486.
To tak wengeans Off thaim that made dystrowblans Off the kyng of Inglandis men 1427 Melville Chart. 245.
It salbe leyffull … the said myllin dam to make … foroutyn ony impediment or distrowblans 1456 Hay II. 25/27.
For thai drede mare the distroublaunce and malese of thair corssage, na the honoure and worschip 1473 Holyrood Chart. 152.
That na man tak apone hande to do ony maner of … distroublans in priue or apperte to the said venerable fadir 1496 Acts Lords of Council II. 26.
For the wrangus vexacione, inquietance and distroublance of him and his servituris in the peceable broiking and joising of his landis(c) 14.. Acts I. 30/2.
Na greyff nor na dystroblans sal be done til hym mar than he has 14.. Ib. 362/2.
That al burges suld be fre … to by and to sell … withoutyn ony distrobillans 1431 Reg. Great S. 44/2.
Gif it hapnys … that the said Kyrktoun cummys nocht to sa mekyll through distroblance 1497 Prestwick B. Rec. 34.
For a word he mycht haf lettit the distrobillans of the toune be Elene Broune(d) c1420 Wynt. viii. 6970.
The felloun karlis rayis in Frawnce, Thare makand fellown distroybulance 1471 Acts Lords Auditors 21/1.
For the wrangwis vexatioun, inquietatioun, & distroiblans of the said Iohne 1471 Ib. 22/1.
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