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1occupationsummoner, officer who notifies persons to appear:
(
s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4
) venuz iert cum sumunur E chamberleng a l'emperur
S JeanANTS 7227
(
1363
) [...] que chescun home d'estat de la dite citee, alderman et sommonour q'est de bone fame eit poair en absence des ministres d'arester felonies et mesfesours
Foedera1 iii 705
♦lawoccupationsummoner, individual given the task of notifying defendants or others that they are required to attend a specific court on a specific day for a specific purpose:
(
1256-67
) Ore deivent les somnurs si il seient bons estre en present pur temoiner les somons
Summae 15
(
1260; MS: s.xiii3/3
) somonez par bons somonurs l'avantdit Willam qu'il soit devant nos justices a premers assises [...]
Brev Plac 57
(
1319
) par examinement de premir somounor ou de veors ou de dreine somounor
YBB Ed II xxiv 48
(
1469
) ele avera accion de disceite [...] envers le someners
Readings i 65.35
♦
occupationeccl.lawsummoner, officer of the ecclesiastical courts who notifies persons to appear in court:
(
a.1399; MS: a.1399
) toutz les advocates, notaries, procuratours mariez paient [...]; apprentices de ley et attourn; apprentices de ley et attournés [...]; pardoners et somouners mariez solonc lour estate [...]
Anon Chr1 127.39
♦finan.occupationofficer of the Exchequer who assists in collecting royal revenue:
(
1323
) face le chauncellier del escheqier desore, par son somenour, faire renoveler [...]
Red Bk 884
(
1378
) les ditz somnours facent lour sommons as diverses gentz par malice come ils sont en alantz a lour charuetz en les champes
Rot Parl1 iii 43.46
2summoner, one who urges or exhorts:
(
MS: s.xiii2
) Li prodons ne mangera son pain oiseus, car en quel estat q'il soit, il li semble tozjors qe il doie oir le somoneur
Paroles Salomun p.188
(
c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4
) Fraunceys mut les out cheri E en duce amur les requoylli E soleyt estre lur sumuneur Ke loassent lur cher Creatur
S FranANTS 6163
(
c.1200; MS: c.1220-40
) Li bos s'en partent od l'arche Deu qu'il traient Sanz somunur (var.
(B: s.xiii3/4) sumenur
) e sanz conduit qu'il eient
Anc Test (E) 5627
somonur (1199)