aphetic f. of EVANGEL. Sc. and north.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxvii. (Machar), 1401. Þe buk of þe wangele.
1389. in Sir W. Fraser, Wemyss of W. (1888), II. 24, in N. & Q., 9th Ser. IV. 438/2. Bath the partys fornemmyt, the haly wangelis twechyt, the gret ath has sworn.
c. 1450. St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 6800. Þe text of wangels fell in þe water.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 128. Be law of nature and of the wangel.
a. 1568. in Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club), 118. So said Sanct Johine in his wangell.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 6. John Knox … Past like a lion round the land, And wi’ the wangyle in his hand.
