v. Sc. Obs. Also 4 freth. [Sc. form of FRITH v.] trans. To set free, liberate. To freith oneself: to perform one’s promise. esp. in Sc. Law. To release from an obligation or pecuniary burden.

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13[?].  Assis. Dav. II., in Balfour’s Practicks (1754), 18. To freith and releive thair borghis, except thay have a lauchfull essonzie.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, Adrian, 290. To freth his borowis & mak fre.

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1466.  Acta Dom. Audit. (1839), 3. To freith þe said landis of vchiltre of þe v mercis þt he grantis he promist to pay to Robert.

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c. 1470.  Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, IX. 1515.

        Quhen thai had byrnt all tre werk in that place,
Wallace gert freith the wemen, off hys grace.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 187.

        For to remit the injure and offence
That tha had done, and freith [thame] for to go
To thair awin land quhair tha befoir come fro.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., X. 318–9. The Protectour denyes ony-way to freith the Erle afor the weiris be endet. Ibid., 350. Quene mother suld suirlie freith her selfe in al, quhat euir scho had promiste.

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