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† ˈburrow-mail Sc. Obs. [f. burrow4 + mail tribute.] ‘The annual duty payable to the sovereign by a burgh for the enjoyment of certain rights’ (Jamieson).
1424Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §8 All the greate and smal customes, and burrow-mailles of the Realme, abide and remaine with the King till his living. c1550Sir J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 46 He sall faithfullie pay to the King his burrow-maill. 1617Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) 579 (Jam.) His Majesties burgh off Abirdene..doted with ampill priuiledges and immunityes for the yeirlie payment of the soume of tua hundereth threttene pundis sex schillingis aucht pennyes of borrow maill. |