1449 T. Howes et al. in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 65 Item, ye purchaced ther londes and tenementes, medews and mershez, lateward John Tychewell, for xl li., wherof we know the buttayle of the most part.

1537 tr. Erasmus Expos. xv. Psalme sig. B.ii The lust or desyre of blode shedynge, whiche is the vttermoste poynt, or buttell of rancoure & hatered.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Buttel, or bound of land, meta.

1574 A. Gilby tr. Test. Twelue Patriarches sig. Fv^v I haue not..remoued the boundes & buttels of lands.

1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 23 Busines about the buttals of certaine pastures.

a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters x. 42 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) Every day he surveighs his grounds and the buttals thereof, lest there be any incroaching.

1674 Defensio Legis xvi. 214 In Contemplation of Law, 'tis deem'd shut and Enclos'd; though the Fence be not pointed out, by an Isthmus, Rock, or any other known Buttal, like an Agrarian Mound.

1725 Act for confirming Awards for enclosing Common Fields Fangfosse cum Spittle 3 A description of the Situation, Buttals, and Boundaries, of the same several Shares, and Allotments, and Directions for fencing the same.

1745 C. Viner Gen. Abridgm. Law & Equity XXI. 349 If the Buttal be assign'd to be towards the East, tho' it lies North, yet if it inclines to the East, that is to say, if it be towards the East, it is sufficient Proof of the Buttal.

1821 C. T. Swanston Rep. Cases Chancery 1818–9 1 97 They should draw up an award or instrument in writing, which should express..the quantity and contents, situation, buttals, and boundaries of the several parcels and allotments.

1869 J. A. Smith Treat. on Land Surv. in Theory & Pract. v. 180 Through these verified points straight lines should be traced, and drawn in pencil, to well defined points in the detail, such as the buttals of fences, the corners of houses and walls, gate piers, &c.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 47/1 Buttal, the bit of your land which abuts mine; and vice versa.

1635 R. Brathwait Ess. Five Senses (rev. ed.) ii. iii. 114 To purchase a buttall of land from his neighbour.

1449 T. Howes et al. in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 65 Of which lond the seid Shipdam hath founde and buttayled xxviij acre di. rod, wyth the seid mersh and medew.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiv. 2) Inasmuch as they wer wont to buttel out grounds with metepoles.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxxxi. 1124 Some Geometrician that should haue butteled and bounded the whole world.

1620 Articles to be enquired of within Diocesse of London sig. A4^v Exhibite with your..presentment a true note of them in parchment..specifying how they are buttalled and bounded.

1642 in T. Gardner Hist. Acct. Dunwich (1754) 166 A Porch-Houst that stound in the South Stret, buteling of Robart Barfot on the North Syd, butel of South Fisher-Way on South; butel East latle Houses; butel on West upon latly caled Maynfeld.

1670 D. Lloyd State-worthies (ed. 2) 831 A reversion of the Register of the Star-Chambers place..which he stay'd for 20 years, saying that it was like another mans ground, buttalling upon his house.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiv. 2) Y^t God (by y^e secret buttelling of his own good pleasure, as it were by a tenfoote rod) bounded out Israel from the other nacions.