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(Outhallar,) Uthellar, -ollar, Udal(l)er, n. Also: wthellar, uddaller. [Outhall n.] A proprietor of land by udal tenure. = Outhall n. 1 c, Outhallman n.(a) 1601 S. Ronaldshay 13.
The haill uthell landis … fewit be ane noble and potent lord … to the uthellars thereof 1616 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I. 240. 1627 Orkney Rentals iii. 49.
Labourit … be the tennentis and uthollaris Ib. 90.
Scatt dewtie quhilk hes ever bein payit be the wthellaris to the lord and superiour of the land(b) 1617 Orkney Bp. Ct. 17 b.
Jonet Patersoune … quha wes heretabill vddaller of the landis 1641 Acts V. (1817) 350/1.
Vdallers 1669 Peterkin Orkney & Zetl. 190. 1671 Goudie Shetl. Antiq. 235. 1679 Craven Ch. in Orkney I. 84.
I desyre ye wold speake James Young … that he wold spaire … myself and the small udallers in this ile for this Whitsundayes [dues] 1633 (1711) Sibbald's Orkn. & Shetl. 16.
Divers of them are udalers, that is proprietaries of the land … by immemorial possession
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