Taisses is recorded in this Index as a Scottish barony in the county of Fife. The earliest record identified so far is dated 1525. It also appears in the sources as Teas, Teasses, Taces, Tasis and Tassis.
The historical record
References identified
Register of the Great Seal
RMS iii, no.315 (1525), barony of Tasis; iii, no.3230 (1546), barony of Tassis. Scholarly citations in Glasgow Fife Place-Name Data; printed entries not directly inspected. RMS ii 3511 (1510) describes a tenandry.
Retours and Lyon records
Retours: Fife, nos. 618, 914, 1169 (Taisses), 658, 659 (Teas) — baronia in the index. Glasgow additionally identifies no.1547 (1613) as lands and barony of Taisses; dates no.658 to 1643, no.914 to 1662 and no.1169 to 1678. Published Retour index, vol. III (1816); .
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