Obs. Also 5 vergerar-. [Extended f. VERGER2 1: see -ER1 3.] = VERGER2 1. Hence † Vergerership. Obs.

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1485.  Rolls of Parlt., VI. 347/2. The Office of Vergerarshipp of Wyndesore.

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1566.  trans. Beza’s Admon. to Parlt., D j. Cathedrall churches, where master Deane,… pentioners, readers, vergerirs, &c. liue in great idlenesse.

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1617.  Minsheu, Ductor, s.v., Vergerers … be such, as carry Virgas, i. roddes before the Iustices of either banck, &c.

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1676.  Wood, Life (O.H.S.), II. 362. His father was vergerer or Westminster.

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