Corrupt form of barcelet: see BERCELET. Wyntoun’s Cron., VI. 1610 (Royal MS.) has the form wersslete.
c. 1200. Leges Forestarum, c. 1, in Acts Parlt. Scot., I. 687. Cum custode … canem habente qui warseth appellatur.
14[?]. (Translation) ibid. A hund þe quhilk is callit warset.
