Now Hist. Forms: 6 spurr reyall, spurr(e) ryall, 7 (9) spur ryal, 8– spur rial (9 riall); 6 spur-rial, 7. -ryal(l; 6 spurriall (8 -al), 7 spurryal(l. [f. SPUR sb.1 + RIAL sb.1]
1. = SPUR-ROYAL.
1588. in Aston’s Manch. Guide (1804), 26. A spurr reyall and an oulde piece of money, 00 16 00.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 82. They must haue … a few Spur-Rials to remedy deafnes.
1609. Dekker, Gull’s Horn-bk., Wks. (Grosart), II. 263. Two such Elizabeth twenty-shilling peeces, or foure such spur-ryals … rid away amongst the rest.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 283. Pieces of fifteene shillings called Spur Ryals.
1745. Fleetwood, Chron. Prec., 18.
1853. Humphreys, Coin Coll. Man., II. 465. Spur rials at 15 shillings each. Ibid. The motto on the reverse of the rose rial and spur rial.
1899. Grueber, Coins Gt. Brit. & Irel. in B. M., 102. The spur ryal … received its name from the pointed form of the rays of the sun on the reverse, which looks like a spur.
¶ 2. Her. = SPUR-ROWEL 2.
1680. Sir G. Mackenzie, Sci. Her., 97. Though Bailzie of Lamingtons Arms are by some blazoned Mollets (Spurryals) yet … they are Starrs.
