The Scottish language has changed over the
years, being influenced by other languages and
cultures. This section provides you with a definition
of those words and phrases commonly found in
documents and records throughout Scotland's
archives. If you know of a word you would like
added to the Glossary then please contact
us.
could be poultry or animals paid by a vassal
to a superior as part of a feu-duty,
but was more often poultry, eggs, butter and
such things (even goose-feathers) paid by
a tenant to a landlord as rent
"kindly
tenants"
were highly unusual. They held their
tenancies for a low or "favourable"
rent (which included paying no rent at all),
and it seems that, unlike normal tenants, it
was understood that they could be succeeded
in their holdings by their heirs. They were
also called "rentallers".
was a sequel;
it was a quantity of grain due to the servants
of a mill (who did the actual milling) by those
who were bound to have their corn ground at
that mill, but like all these sequels it varied
according to the particular custom of the mill;
see astriction,
lock
and gowpen, sucken,
thirlage
