Roup - Wonderful, if sad word meaning a farm sale of family goods when they are forced to quit their Homes

From MacColl's Tenant Farmer

Well, what wi' the cost o' the feedin' stuff and the landlord's rent increases,
They turned us oot and they held a roup o' a' our bits and pieces.
Your fairm's owre sma', nae use at a', and the owner needs the land,
Times are changed, we dinna need a tenant fairmer.

A moving Fictional account of Robert Burns' family 'roup' can be found in James Barke's 'Wind That Shakes the Barley'
Jim Carroll