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rengator

rengator, rangeator, raungeator, rangiator [1 renga+CL -tor; cf. ME ra(u)unger], forester, gamekeeper, ranger (in quot. usu. w. forestae or sim.). 1319 quamdiu ‥ rangeator fuerit in foresta de Cannok' (Staffs) Pipe 164; 1340 equites et due [sic] rangiatores dicte foreste solebant habere unum hominem in foresta predicta SelPlForest xxvi n; 1343 et in vadiis j ~atoris chacie predicta per tempus predictum xlix s. vj. d. MinAc 1110/11 m. 2; 1416 litteras patentes de officio capitalis rangeatoris foreste de Waltham ‥ sigillavit (Cl) Foed. IX 385; 1437 officium raungeatoris foreste nostre de Sausci Pat 440 m. 8; 1573 pro feoda [sic] rangeatoris ejusdem foreste Ib. 1103 m. 2; 1606 omnium et singulorum locumtenen’ forest’ rangiatorum, laundarum deambulatorum, paliceatorum Ib. 1714 m. 13.

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