submonitor

1 submonitor [CL submonere+-tor], person appointed to summon person or people to appear or assemble (e. g. for military service), summoner; b (eccl. or mon.); c (employed by Exchequer to assist in collecting royal revenue); d (employed by guild); e (passing into surname). 1163 omnes obsides ‥ assecuraverunt quod non diffugient summonitionem et quod summonitores securi erunt ‥ ab omnibus quos prohibere poterunt a nocumento eorum Act. Hen. II I 381; si quis ‥ tercio vocatus non comparet, quarto die ostendant summonitores tres defaltas et adhuc summonitionem habeat (Leis Will.) GAS 518; 1204 curia sit in misericordia pro falso judicio eo quod nullum summonitorem produxerunt qui testaretur summonicionem CurR III 133; 1219 per servicium existendi summonitor in wapentako Fees 285; per servicium existendi summonitor et ferendi brevia domini regis per utrumque comitatum, scilicet Noting' et Derb', ad custum suum proprium Ib. 288; tenens summonebitur quod ad curiam veniat responsurus ‥. et erit summonitio facta per legalem ~orem coram idoneis testibus RegiamM I 6; summoneat per bonos summonitores xxiiij legales milites de visneto Londoniarum ‥ parati sacramento recognoscere MGL I 437; a somonder, citator ‥ summonitor CathA.  b 1170 iij summonitoribus de villa de Ely xiiij s. pro vij acris bladi. et in quietancia terre eorum pro officio summonendi ij s. Pipe 96; summonitor [habebit] v ambras et companagium de lardario Chr. Abingd. II 241; 1404 officium ~oris principalis in diocese Herefordensi concessum ‥ Thome Marchall ‥ quamdiu domino placuerit Reg. Heref. 4.  c 1346 in officio summonitoris in scaccario LTR Mem 118 Comm. Pasch..  d 1414 quicumque ‥ confratrum somonitus fuerit ad alteram ‥ gildarum ‥ et non venerit solvet ‥ j lb. cere nisi excuset se racionabiliter somonitori artis Doc. Bev. 110.  e 1221 W. summonitor et H. clericus subdiaconus ejusdem ville fuerunt ad idem convivium PlCrGlouc 14; c1270 domus Bartholomei Summonitoris Cart. Osney III 112; testibus ‥ Nicholao ~ore, Petro de W. ‥ Ch. Westm. 393; c1205 testibus ‥ N. sumonitore, J. filio Edwardi Ib. 438.

2 submonitor [CL sub-+monitor], deputy or assistant monitor or usher. 1321 hostiarius vel submonitor scolarum Cantuariensium Educ. Ch. 262.