Obs. Forms: 3 stranlyne, -ling, 4 -lyng, strenlyng, strandling(e, -lyng(e. [Of obscure origin.] Some kind of fur; ? the fur of the squirrel taken at Michaelmas.
c. 1299. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 495. In 5 fururis de Stranlyne, 52s. 6d. … In 6 furur. de Stranling ad capusc., 22s.
1303–4. Acc. Exors. R. de Gravesend (Camden), 55. De duabus capis de persico furratis de Strenlyng.
1305. in Munim. Magd. Coll. Oxf. (1882), 145. Cum perrula de stra[n]dlings.
c. 1314. Liber Horn, fol. 249 b (Guildhall MS.), in N. & Q., 11th Ser. (1912), V. 170/2. Strandling est Squirel contre le feste Seint Michel.
1327. in Riley, Memorials (1868), 153. A fur of stra[n]dlynge of 6 tiers.
1327. in Compotus Rolls Obedientiaries St. Swithun’s, Winch. (1892), 256. In j furura de grosso Strandling et alia de minuto Strandling.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 11194. Manteles…. Of meneuer, stranlyng, veyr, & gris.
1334–5. in Compotus Rolls Obedientiaries St. Swithin’s, Winch. (1892), 236. In xij furruris de grossa Strandlinge…. In iiij furruris de Meyn Strandlynge.
