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ˈstallenger Sc. and north. Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: 4 stallangear, 5 stallangar, 7 stallanger; 5–7, 9 Hist. stallenger; 6 stalinger, 6, 9 Hist. stallinger.
[Alteration of *stalager (with inserted n as in passenger) a. OF. estalagier, f. estalage stallage. (In Sc. Law-Latin stallangiarius, stallangiator.)]
A stall-keeper, a petty trader who paid to the burgh a small sum for the privilege of setting up his stall in fair or market; also, a person not a freeman who paid a small sum to the corporation for the privilege of carrying on his business for one year. Also attrib.
a1400Burgh Laws xxxvii. (Sc. Stat. I), Of stallangearis and mersaris tol. Ilke stallangear sall mak fyne with þe borow greffis eftyr as þai may accord or ellis he sall geyf a halpeny ilke marcate day. 1433Seill of Caus, Edin. 2d May, MS. (Jam.) Giue he beis sufficient of his craft, and not of power to mak his expenssis haistelie wpon his fredome, he sall bruik the priviledge of ane stallanger for ane yeir. 1523Morpeth Rec. in Archæol. æliana (1889) XIII. 214 And if it fortine anye stalinger to maike a fraye wthin the said boroughe, that then the officers aforesaid shall sett the same offenders in the Stox. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign. (1641) Stallangiatores, à stallo, Cremers, or Forraine merchandes, quha within Burgh, in the time of Faire or Mercat, payis certaine dewty for their stal or stand, in the quhilk place they sel their merchandice: For it is ordained, that ilk stallanger sal either agree with the Provest of the Burgh, in the best forme as he may; or else ilk mercat-day, sal pay to him ane halfe-pennie. 1857Gentl. Mag. i. 351/1 [Sunderland.] It appears..that one of the duties of the ‘Grassmen’, who were generally two or three of the defunct body of freemen and stallingers, was anciently to look after the hedges.
attrib.1478–9Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1869) I. 36 Ilk stallenger puir body that occupeis the fredome of the towne..and all stallangers that may be burges. 1481Ibid. 40 Stallangars. 1598Aberd. Reg. (Jam.) To pound all vnfremen for thair stallinger sylver. |