Obs.–1 [f. med.L. Sprucia (see prec.) or SPRUCE sb.] A Prussian.

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1443.  Acts Privy Counc. (1835), V. 233. My Lord Tres. hath declared … hou þat þe Spruciers & Hansze beth freer here in Ingland þan þe Kynges subgittes.

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