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1497    in  J. D. Marwick  		(1869)	 I. 71  				This contagius seiknes callit the grandgor.
1497    in  T. Dickson  		(1877)	 I. 356  				Item, to ane woman with the grantgore..iij s. vj d.
1509    in  M. Livingstone  		(1908)	 I. 274/2  				To cure and hele the sade umquhile Lancelote of the infirmite of the grantgor.
1529    D. Lindsay  286  				Ihone Makerery, the kyngis fule,..For his rewarde, gat the grand gore.
1535    W. Stewart tr.  H. Boethius  		(1858)	 II. 313  				No canker, fester, gut, or ȝit grandgor.
1633    W. Lithgow  sig. Ev  				His Lordship thanks the good grandgore.
1796    J. Townsend  II. 298  				In the year 1497, a proclamation appeared in Scotland, ordering all who laboured under the grand gore, to quit the continent.
1868     224/1  				The island in 1497 was turned into a lazaretto for persons afflicted with a disease called ‘grandgore’.
1901     26 Oct. 1158/2  				A terrible epidemic of ‘grandgore’, or French pox..was stamped out by deporting all the sick to the island of Inchkeith.
1953     30 May 1192/2  				Syphilis..had spread to Scotland, where it was known as grandgore or grantgor.
1990    L. Mahood  i. 20  				During this time the first attempts to control ‘glengore’ or ‘grandgore’, common Scottish names for syphilis, were incorporated in two edicts.