Obs. One who carried a company’s ensign; = ENSIGN 7.
1579. Digges, Stratiot., 89. The ensigne bearer ought, when the warre is ended, to deliver up to hys captayne agayne hys Ensigne.
1582–8. Hist. James VI. (1804), 134. Alexander Bog ansenȝie bearer to Capitane Meluill.
1604. E. Grimstone, Hist. Siege Ostend, 72. An Ensigne-bearer a Frison was slaine with a Musket shot being in the Polder.
1672. Venn, Mil. Observations, Exercise Foot, 177.
