divydit

Updated: January 22, 2026

But, in the days of poor Dunbar, church patronage seems to have been conferred somewhat after the fashion of our own times, if not worse, for he again says "I knaw nocht how the kirk is gydit, But benefices are nocht leil divydit; Sum men hes sevin, and I nocht ane!"

Various - Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III