† ˈburrow-mail Sc. Obs.
[f. burrow4 + mail tribute.]
‘The annual duty payable to the sovereign by a burgh for the enjoyment of certain rights’ (Jamieson).
| 1424 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §8 All the greate and smal customes, and burrow-mailles of the Realme, abide and remaine with the King till his living. c 1550 Sir 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. |