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town book
Also 6 Sc. townis buk.
A book in which the records of a town are kept.
a1547in J. R. Boyle Hedon (1875) App. 72 All suche re[n]talles, presidences, or towne bookes as they had in theire kepinge. 1567Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 506 The townis bukis, court bukis, and scrollis. 1641Rhode 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. 1765Univ. Mag. XXXVII. 377/1 That this vote be recorded in the town book. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 41 The Old Town Books of the Suabian and Franconian cities. |