mutarius

mutarius [cf. 3 muta, mutare] 1 (as adj., of bird) that has been put into a mew to change its feathers, mewed, moulted. 1199 per servicium unius nisi mutuarii per annum RChart 21a; 1201 B. ‥ petit versus W. de O. ‥ j nisum ~ium per annum CurR II 53; 1212 Hugo ‥ solebat tenere c solidatas terre et xij solidatas in Clawrd’ reddendo j espervarium ~ium ex dono Henrici regis Fees 150; 1235 reddendo inde per annum espervarium mutorium BNB III 127; 1242 H. de A. r. c. de j spervario ~io de firma manerii de E. Pipe 3; juratores presentant quod Willelmus de Blavegny tenet unam serjantiam in Ardel’ per servicium unius spervarii ~ii, et valet per annum c s. Fees 1409. 2 (as sb. n.) change of clothes, clothes into which one changes. hoc ~ium, a chaungyngcloth WW.