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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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†FORESEAT, n. Also forseat. A front seat, esp. in a church, a seat or bench forming the front part of an enclosed pew.Ork. 1700 in A. W. Johnston Church in Ork. (1940) 59:
Magnus Garioch in Cornequoy, Gilbert Garioch in Greinwall, and Henrie Garioch, in Breaquoy, tenents, claimed right to ane single seat and half off the forseat thereto belonging built be ther predecesores and possessed be themselves.Peb. 1713 Burgh Records (B.R.S.) 187:
Each man that hath a right to the foreseat in the Kirk by his father's death, shall not enter thereto till his marriage.Ayr. 1822 Galt Sir A. Wylie xxxiv.:
It's no every ane, my lord, that can thole the inside o' a coach, especially the foreseat that draws backward.