Also 6 Sc. townis buk. A book in which the records of a town are kept.
a. 1547. in J. R. Boyle, Hedon (1875), App. 72. All suche re[n]talles, presidences, or towne bookes as they had in theire kepinge.
1567. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 506. The townis bukis, court bukis, and scrollis.
1641. Rhode Isl. Col. Rec. (1856), I. 114. Ordered, that each Towne shall provide a Towne Book, wherein they shall Record the Evidences of the Lands by them impropriated.
1765. Univ. Mag., XXXVII. 377/1. That this vote be recorded in the town book.
1816. Singer, Hist. Cards, 41. The Old Town Books of the Suabian and Franconian cities.
