† sompnour Obs.
Also 5–6 sompner(e.
[Variant of somnour somner: cf. prec.]
An official summoner.
| α 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. iii. 33 Sisoures and sompnoures, suche men hir preiseth. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 543 Ther was..A sompnour and a pardoner also. c 1400 Plowman's Tale in Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 313 They taken to ferme her sompnours. 1490–1 Rec. St. Mary at Hill 164 Paide to William Iames, Sompnour, for sompnyng of iij tenauntes that owed monye to the chyrch, x d. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle of Facions ii. xi. 256 Thei haue also certaine spie⁓faultes ordinarilye appoincted (muche like to our Sompnours). |
| β 14.. Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 573 Citator, a Sompnere. c 1500 God Speed the Plough (Skt.) 65 Than cometh the Sompner to haue som rente. a 1535 Frere & Boy 478 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 80 Thus they departed in that tyde, The offycyall and the sompnere. |