town book
Also 6 Sc. townis buk.
A book in which the records of a town are kept.
| a 1547 in J. R. Boyle Hedon (1875) App. 72 All suche re[n]talles, presidences, or towne bookes as they had in theire kepinge. 1567 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 506 The townis bukis, court bukis, and scrollis. 1641 Rhode Isl. Col. Rec. (1856) I. 114 Ordered, that each Towne shall provide a Towne Book, wherein they shall Record the Evidences of the Lands by them impropriated. 1765 Univ. Mag. XXXVII. 377/1 That this vote be recorded in the town book. 1816 Singer Hist. Cards 41 The Old Town Books of the Suabian and Franconian cities. |