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scutifer [CL scutum+-fer; cf. CL scutigerulus] 1 that carries a shield or sim.. ejus scutiferum movet Anglos undique plaustrum Garl. Tri. Eccl. 55. 2 who bears a coat of arms, armigerous. quod insignitae apud nos nobilitati (quam inde ~am et scutigeram appellamus) nomen fecerunt. hinc ~eros et scutigeros dicimus, quos etiam armigeros Spelman Asp. 1. 3 (as sb. m.) squire, attendant; b (w. king or other master specified). c (passing into title) esquire. d soldier. 1264 adducendo tecum milites, servientes et ~eros quos perquirere poteris ad denarios nostros Cl 382; c1286 eidem pro ferro quod Albinus ~us emit ad elarganda arma regis, lx s. Rec. Wardr. 214; episcopus ‥ ad Dovoriam applicuit, dimisso ~ero in curia ad portandas bullas Hist. Roff. p. 360; squyer, gentylman, armiger ‥ ~er PP; hic ~er, A. sqwyere WW; a squyere, armiger ‥ ~er CathA.  b 1226 testibus ‥ Wadino ~ero meo Reg. Moray 78; 1274 datum cuidam ~ero domini Antonii Bek ducenti j palefridum domino ‥ j anulum precii vj s. viij d. Househ. Henry 406; 1297 esquitiferis ‥ domini regis Aragonie RGasc III cxiv n. 1; 1388 allocate per liberacionem factam cuidam ~ero regis in panno, de mandato regis ‥ xliij s. ExchScot 176; 1418 Alexandro ‥ Jacobo ‥ ~eris nostris Melrose II 499; s1428 Willelmus Wythman ~er et cocus domini regis contulit cuilibet monacho ‥ duodecim denarios Chr. S. Alb. 68; cum egregio comitatu episcopi Wigorniensis et domini Brandon magni ~eri regii André Hen. VII 123.  c 1360 Thomas de la Hille ~erus David de Bruys ac Thomas de Gliddesdale de Scocia habent litteras regis de conductu RScot 854a; s1387 his testibus ‥ Johanni Blake ~ero ‥ Chr. Angl. 382; 1414 Alexandrum de Home ~erum Pri. Cold. 87; 1497 Johannes de Courteville ~er, trenchiator, marescallus hospitiorum ejusdem archiducis et ballivus de Lille Foed. XII 655.  d ‘inter scutiferos’, sc. milites (Ergome) Pol. Poems I 140.

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