Sc. Obs. [f. BURROW4 + MAIL tribute.] ‘The annual duty payable to the sovereign by a burgh for the enjoyment of certain rights’ (Jamieson).
1424. Sc. Acts Jas. I. (1597), § 8. All the greate and smal customes, and burrow-mailles of the Realme, abide and remaine with the King till his living.
c. 1550. Sir J. Balfour, Practicks (1754), 46. He sall faithfullie pay to the King his burrow-maill.
1617. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1816), 579 (Jam.). His Majesties burgh off Abirdene … doted with ampill priuiledges and immunityes for the yeirlie payment of the soume of tua hundereth threttene pundis sex schillingis aucht pennyes of borrow maill.
