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Quotation dates: 1496-1539, 1599, 1650-1651
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Wafro(u)n, n. Also: waffroun, wafrone, vafrown, wafferon, waithferon. [ME and e.m.E. wafroun (?c1390), wafron (c1420), waffron (1486).] A wafer. Also comb. and attrib. 1496 Treasurer's Accounts I 323.
To a man that brocht wafrounis to the king ix s. 1503 Treasurer's Accounts II 395.
To ane man that maid wafronis to the king xiiij s. 1513 Treasurer's Accounts IV 410.
To Alexander Disart, cuke, for wafferonis brocht to the king 1525 Household Bks. Jas. V 75.
Lez waithferonis 1528 Household Bks. Jas. V 175.
iiijc waffrovnis de puro frumento 1599 Bk. Rates p. 11 b from end.
The prices of the blenschis … the kingis officiaris suld mak ȝeirlie compt in the cheker … Wafronis to the king quhen he cumis to the castell hill of Lanerik v li. a1651 Calderwood VII 277.
Efter the baptisme, some hippocrasse and wafrons were presented to the noblemen and noblewomen, … to eate and drinkecomb. 1512 Treasurer's Accounts IV 358.
To Disart wafrone sellar xiiij s.attrib. 1538–9 Treasurer's Accounts VII 140.
To Murdo Striveling, patesser, to by foure vafrown irnis to the quenis grace, vj li.
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