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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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BURGHAL, adj. Belonging to a burgh.Sc. 1889 County Council Magazine Vol II 306:
.... non-burghal lands ... partly burghal, partly landward ...Sc. 1931 St Andrews Citizen (11 July) 2/4:
County areas, both landward and burghal.Sc. 1974 David D. Murison in G. W. S. Barrow The Scottish Tradition 78:
... and as a consequence the spread of popular education through church schools, and, probably the weightiest factor of all, the development of towns as the centres of trade and industry and the growth of burghal rights and privileges, ...
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