Foud

dial. Also 6, 9 fowd(e, 7 fold, 8 feud. [Adoption of the local Scand. form:—ON. fógeti (Da. foged, Sw. fogde) = Ger. vogt, ad. med.L. vocātus, pa. pple. of vocāre to call.]

  In Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroe Isles, a bailiff, magistrate, or governor; formerly the President of the Supreme Court in Orkney and Shetland.

1581.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1814), III. 255. Gevand—to the said lord robert stewart and his … schireffis and fowdis foirsaidis, full power [etc.].

1601.  Minutes of a District Court, Dunrossnan, in J. Mill’s Diary (1889), 178–9. Provin in the foldis buikis to have disobeyit to gang to my lordis wark in Scatlowy.

1703.  Brand, Descr. Orkney, etc., 121. In this parish … the Principal Feud or Judge of the Country; used to sit and give Judgment.

1889.  Goudie, J. Mill’s Diary, Introduction, p. xxxviii. Originally, in Shetland, as in Norway, every district or parish had its court, presided over by the parish Foud.

1894.  Scotsman, 10 Nov., 10/6. The Foude [in Faroe] is collector, or rather treasurer of all kinds of skat.

  Hence Foudrie [see -RY], the office of a foud; also, the district over which his jurisdiction extended.

1581.  Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1814), III. 254. Our souerane lord … grantis to the said lord robert stewart … the offices … of schirefschip and fowdrie. Ibid. (1592), 619. Landis lyand w^thin the diocie of orknay w^thin the fauderie of orknay and Zetland.

1693.  J. Wallace, Descr. Orkney (1883), 108. Foudrie, The Government of the Foud.