rentallern.

1553 in J. Bain & C. Rogers Glasgow Rental Bk. (1875) 152 Rentaillit in to xij s. land..vacand be the deces of his..fathir, last rentaillare tharof.

1578 in Exch. Rolls Scotl. (1899) XX. 370 (note) It will pleis your lordschip resaif this berar as rentalar in our souerane lordes regester.

1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Curialitas In sik maner as gif he were proprietare, lyfe-rentar, tackesman or rentaller.

1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 13 Nov. (1855) 95 It is appoyntit, that all rentallers be valued as weill as the heritores.

1666 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 421/1 That a remedy may be prowided wher they have taks or are rentalers.

1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 82 Rentalers, who held small Estates for military Service, not unlike the Timariots of Turkey, with this Difference, that many moe of them depended on Subjects than on the Crown.

a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. ii. vi. §37 267 It is the most probable opinion, that as rentals were granted from a special regard to the rentaller, they were accounted rights of liferent.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 566 The rentallers of Lochmaben, who were formerly servants to the Scottish Kings, have rights which may be transferred to strangers.

1880 Academy 8 May 334/1 By virtue of which the widow of a rentaller was entitled to retain possession of the lands during her widowhood.

1904 J. Colville in J. Cockburn Lett. Introd. p. xxiii These crofters were the kindly rentallers of the barony, tenants at will.

1982 Hist. Jrnl. 25 220 Scottish tack-holders and rentallers..enjoyed security of tenure comparable to that of English copyholders.