The peculation of subsequent Donataries, by the fraudulent increase, fluctuation, and complexity of the Standards of Weight and Measure, and consequent augmentation of the burdens of Orkney to the amount of 3000 Cattle, 5000 Bolls of Grain, 6218 Lispunds or Stones of Butter, and 700 Gallons of Oil, became (1750) the subject of the memorable PUNDLAR PROCESS. To the various Memorials and Pleadings in that suit I must refer for more minute details, as the whole difficult subject is there discussed and exhausted, but in a form too long for insertion, and too intricate for condensation. The evidence was complete, that the Crown Donataries had for two centuries persistently, fraudulently, and enormously increased the legal weights and measures of the Islands. But after the Pursuers had been driven to incur the expense of this elaborate proof, a decision was given against them on the merely preliminary plea of prescription, to the disgrace of a corrupt or partial Court. With such Judges even the specific evidence of date, place, and person, now added by the complaints, might have had little weight; perhaps they might have obsequiously convicted the Zetland witnesses against Lawrence Bruce, of Conspiracy against “that worthy man.” GLOSSARY OF UNUSUAL WORDS. AL-THING, see THING. ANGEL, An English gold coin = 10s. sterling. ARFF, AYRFFE, N. ERFFD, _hereditas_, _heredium_, Heritage, succession. AYNING, N. EIGN, _possessio_, The Ownership of an Odaller. BABIE, BAWBEE, A coin = 1/2d. sterling, but varying from 3d. to 6d. Scots. BAILLIE, An official appointed by the Donatary to perform the functions of the ancient Under-fowd, especially in guarding the interests of the Crown. BALLIATUS, A parochial assessment for the Baillie’s salary, in addition to the ancient WATTEL, appropriated by the Donatary. BARREL, N. BARIEL, A measure of quantity = 15 Lispunds. BERE, _hordeum hexastichon_, A species of Barley, of six rows of grains. BERE PUNDLAR, see PUNDAR. BOLMAN, N. BU-MADR, _rusticus_, _inquilinus_, A husbandman, a yearly tenant or tenant at will. BONDER, N. BONDI, BONDE, _paterfamilias_, _colonus_, An Odaller. BORD-LAND, N. BORD, _mensa_, _cibus_, The guest quarters of the King or Jarl, and therefore exempt from skatt. BOTA-MALI, (N.) Offences expiable by compensation or damages to the injured party, or by Mulcts shared between him and the Crown, which derived no small part of its revenue from this source and from the OBOTA-MALI (_quod vide_). BULL, N. BOL, BU, _prædium nobile_, The principal farm of the ODALSJORD; sometimes called HEAD BULL, N. HOFD-BU, or CHEMISPLACE, Dan. HJEMS, _domus_. CAN, N. KANNA, A measure = 1/45 of a Barrel. CHETTRY, Revenue arising from the Scottish Casualty of Escheit.