graip, grap, grape
Scots term meaning iron-pronged fork used in farming and gardening.
Your Scottish Archives Glossary
The Your Scottish Archives Glossary defines archaic words and phrases, mostly Scots law terminology, commonly found in documents and records in Scotland’s archives. If you think a word or phrase should be added to the glossary, or an existing entry could be defined better, please contact us at your@scottisharchives.org.uk.
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grass of ministers
a minister’s right (in addition to his glebe) to have grass for a horse and two cows.
grassum
or sometimes ‘gersum’; a sum of money paid or promised by a tenant to his landlord when his lease was renewed, or by a feuar (vassal) to his superior when his right to hold lands in fee was granted (a single payment in addition to rent or feu duty)
gravat
Scots term meaning cravat; scarf or muffler, usually woolen.
Great Seal
a royal seal, the Great Seal was used for charters, treaties, grants of land, commissions to high officers of the Crown and other major state documents. One of four royal seals: see also Privy Seal, Signet, Quarter Seal.
ground annual
an annual payment, forming a burden on land. A contract of ground annual was a form of heritable security.
ground mail, grund mail
payment for right of burial.