† burrow-mailn.
Scottish. Obsolete.
‘The annual duty payable to the sovereign by a burgh for the enjoyment of certain rights’ (Jamieson).
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1424 Sc. Acts Jas. I c. 8 All þe gret and smal custumys & burovmaills of þe Realme.
c1550 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 46 He sall faithfullie pay to the King his burrow-maill.
1617 Sc. 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.
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