† lease-monger Obs.
[lease n.3]
One who traffics in leases.
| 1549 Latimer 7th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 208 No hore mongers fayth, no lease mongers fayth, no seller of benefices fayth. 1550 Crowley Epigr. 1169 Of late a leasemongar of London laye sycke, And thyncking to dye, his conscience dyd him pricke. 1615 Stow's Ann. 868/1 Many houses..were all very sudainely inhabited..to the great..aduantage of Landlords and Leasemongers. 1884 Q. Rev. Jan. 117 Either by the landlord or the ‘leasemonger’ farms and tenements were let to the highest bidder. |
So † lease-monging.
| 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 99 If such a one..through good husbandrye, cheuisauncing, leasemonging..shall rise vp to a reuenew of hundredes. |