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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Pound-land, n. [Pound n.¹ 3.] A poundland. = Pund-land n.a. 1596 Reg. Privy C. V 312.
The same to be uplifted of the whole poundlands within the said shire [sc. Fife] viz., 15 s. of every poundland of old extent and to be paid to [etc.] 1598 Retours II Inq. Val. Dom. de Culross (4).
Lurg, foure merkland … Birkinheid, foure schillingis aucht penny land; Langsyde ane pound land … Burwand and the wther half of Quhytehillis, ane pound land; Wester Grange and Brankstoun, twa merk and ane half merkland c1630 Hope Minor Practicks 51.
Every pound land pays … its taxation to the king, counting 30 shill. for each pound land at each term 1653 Retours II Inq. Spec. Wigton (127).
The lands of Corswad, [etc.] … extendin to ane 5 pound-land of auld extent within the parochin of Wigtoun 1659 A. Hay Diary 131.
I divyded it according to the pound land, and according to 28 lib. land ilk 20 sh. land gets 7 aikers 16.. Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 208.
Below that part of Dalgarno there lyeth an eight pound land in the parish of Closburn [etc.] … and a fourty shilling land 1681 Fountainhall Decis. I 149.
Skeen … who affirms that four oxengate makes a pound land: so then, eight oxengate are a forty-shilling land 1685 Paterson Sc. Arithm. 6.
13 acres [are in] an oxengate, 4 oxengate a pound landb. 1652 Retours I Inq. Spec. Dumfries (205).
The 20 pound land of old extent of Moling [etc.] Ib. Inq. Spec. Berwick (288).
13 husband lands of the 20 pound lands of Wester Whitsumlawis 1682 Kirkintilloch B. Ct. 125.
Against all the fewars and possessors of the fyve pound land of Kirkintilloch