Now arch. [f. UNFREE a. 5.] One who is not a freeman of a corporation.
1445. in Charters, etc., Edinb. (1871), 67. Of strangearis and of vnfremen.
1480. Newcastle Merch. Vent. (Surtees), I. 3. The ackit [= act] of collarying of an unfremans gudes.
1511. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1869), I. 134. Pakkis of lint … brocht to the samyn be vnfreemen and strayngeris.
1584. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 433. Any goodes that apertayned to unfreemen (as it is termed).
1627. in Irving, Hist. Dumbarton. (1860), 476. Gif ony freeman byis the same … for the use and behoof of an unfreeman … or wt unfreemanis moneyis to the unfreemanis behoof.
1707. Lond. Gaz., No. 4306/1. The Duties to be paid by the Unfreemen Importers of Coals into the Port … of Great Yarmouth.
1788. Faculty Decisions, II. 30–1 (E.D.D.). That the three saddlers should be discharged to pack and peel with unfreemen.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, ch. x. I am not a person to pack or peel with Jacobites, and such unfreemen as poor Redgauntlet.
1876. Grant, Burgh Sch. Scot., 141. The supplying of instruction to the son and daughter of every burgess and unfreeman.
