Middle English Dictionary Entry
hanser n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hanser n. Also haunser, hanster. |
| Etymology | From hanse & -ere. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. hansard.
1.
(a) A merchant or citizen of the towns of the Hanseatic League; (b) a person who has paid the entrance fee to the merchant guild of the city of Oxford and is admitted as freeman of the city; (c) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- (1442) RParl.5.64b : Sellyng of their Merchaundises..to suche persones, as the seide Prusers and Hansers lust, and to none other.
- (1449) RParl.5.144b : That every Venician, Italian..Lumbard, Hansers, Pruciers, beyng Merchants or Factours, and all other Merchants straungiers..paye..a Subsidie.
b
- 1321-2 *Oxf.City Doc., in Twyne's MSS.XXIII.241 [OD col.] : Item, summa rect. des Hauncers hoc anno vij li. xi s.
- 1399 *Oxf.City Doc., in Twyne's MSS.XXIII.241 [OD col.] : Item recept. de Hansters hoc anno 7 li. 2 s. 6 d.
- 1410 *in Rot.Comp.de Henr.IV [OD col.] : Comput. de Hansteris hoc anno 14 li. xi s. 6 d.
c
- (1270) Close R.Hen.III253 : Jacobus Haunsar'.
- (1326) Close R.Edw.II542 : Eustace le Haunser.
- (1332) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 10245 : Waltero Hansare.