† ˈbrogger Obs.
Also 5 brager, bragger, 7 broger, broggar.
[App. an unexplained corruption of broker. Anglo-French had also broggour beside brocour. Cf. also brogge, brogue n.1]
An agent; a jobber, esp. a corrupt jobber of offices; a broker.
| [1386 Act 10 Rich. II, i. §2 Officers & Ministres faitz par brogage & de lour broggors & de ceux qont prise le broggage.] c 1460 Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xvii. (1875) 153 No man..durst take an office..but he ffirst had þe good will off þe said bragers [MS. 1532 broggers; ed. 1714, broggars] and engrossers of offices. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII, i, Euery..grasier, fermour, breder, drouer, and brogger..whiche..shall haue any beoffes. 1550 Rem. Edw. VI, Jrnl. (Roxb.) 293 That no man shuld bie or sel the self-same thinges againe, except broggers. 1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1588/2 Broggers, and carriers of corne. 1641 Baker Chron. (1679) 391/2 Broggers of Corn and Forestallers of Markets. 1682 J. Scarlett Exchanges 8 Brogers, etc. are Persons Sworn and Authorized by the Magistrate..to enquire of Persons that have any Monyes to remit or to draw, and to agree such persons concerning the Conditions. 1720 Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xv. 329/1 They were called Broggers in a Statute 10 Richard II—none to be Brocars in any mystery unless chosen by the same mystery. |