unciata

unciata [cf. CL uncia] 1 (as measure of cloth or sim.) ounce. 1587 octodecim unceat’ et unum quarterium unius uncei cordule argent’ Anglice vocat’ eightene ounces and one quarter of an ounce of silver lace Pat 1300 m. 12. 2 measure of land (used in Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, and western Scotland) consisting of eighteen or twenty pennylands, on which duty of one ounce of silver or one eighth of a mark was paid to the overlord, ‘ounceland’ (cf. Gael. tìr-unga). 1495 concessit ‥ terras ~e de Baegastallis RMS Scot 2287; 1505 confirmantes ‥ ~am terre Sancti Columbe, que vocatur Here (Ch.) W. Ward, The Isle of Mann and the Diocese of Sodor and Mann (London, 1837) p. 148.

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