Also 7 (in Law) -or. [f. as prec. + -ER1.]
1. One who exchanges or makes an exchange.
1531–2. Act 23 Hen. VIII., c. 16. The same sale, exchaunge or deliuere … shalbe … felony … in the seller, exchaunger or deliuerer.
1613. Sir H. Finch, Law (1636), 116. The exchangor or his heire may vouch to warranty by an exchange without deed.
1642. Perkins, Prof. Bk., iv. § 263. If any of us the Exchangers dye before attornment it is not good.
† 2. A money-changer, an exchange-broker; a money-dealer, banker. Obs. exc. with allusion to the N. T. † The King’s Exchangers: officers appointed by the king to give coin in exchange for bullion or plate.
1539. Bible (Great), Matt. xxv. 27. Thou oughtest therfore to haue delyuered my money to the exchaungers.
1552. Act 5–6 Edw. VI., c. 19 § 1. No man did … take no Profit for making of such Exchange … except the Kings Exchangers.
1584. Fenner, Def. Ministers (1587), 98. Christ overthrew the exchaungers banckes.
1682. Scarlett, Exchanges, 103. An Exchanger should know in the places where Banks are kept, the ordinary times when the Banks are shut.
1695. Locke, Further Consid. Value Money, 35–6 (J.). These Exchangers generally choose rather to buy Bullion, than run the risque of melting down our Coin.
1866. Crump, Banking, i. 9. They [mensularii] were also authorised by the State to act as exchangers, and give Roman coins for foreign ones at a fixed rate of exchange.
