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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 15254 To birrȝenn ȝuw i kirrke ȝærd.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 29349 (MED) He þat in torneament es slayn, For-þi þat he slas him-seluen, In kyrk-yarde aght naman him deluen.

a1450 Seven Sages (Cambr. Dd.1.17) (1845) l. 2482 (MED) In kyrke ȝarde men wolde hym nout delve; He was beryd bon and fel Withouten the toun at a chapel.

1504 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) A1504/3/128 That thair be na markate nor faris haldin..within kirkis nor kirk yardis.

1554–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 355 To put away the rede of the kirkyard bray.

a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. iii. 43 in Wks. (1640) III Our Dame Hecat, Made it her gaing-night, over the Kirk-yard . View more context for this quotation

1677 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1872) II. 297 All litle stones in the kirk yeard put wp for poynting out..the graves.

1708 in W. Cramond Church of Grange (1898) 71 It was acted that no person sued [read sned] the trees of the kirkyard under the faillie of half-merk for every cutted branch.

1786 R. Burns Poems 58 They..in kirk-yards renew their leagues, Owre howket dead.

1830 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord (new ed.) I. 231 The Cameronian monuments, in the old kirkyard of Kirkchrist.

1896 N.-Y. Sc. Amer. Oct. The auld kirkyaird on the grey hillside.

1923 Banffshire Jrnl. 18 Sept. 8 In the kirkyaird there's a mardel o' fock that's come fae near an' far.

1956 C. M. Costie Benjie's Bodle 104 You a' ken he's a geud peece o' rodd fae Jock's tae the kirkyaird.

2003 Scots Mag. Feb. 135/1 In the kirkyard is the railed sarcophagus erected by Sir Walter Scott over the grave of Helen Walker, the prototype for his heroine Jeanie Deans.