Middle English Dictionary Entry
breuster n.
Entry Info
| Forms | breuster n. Also bruster, browster. |
| Etymology | From breu-en. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. breuer(e.
1.
(a) A craftsman who makes and sells ale; a brewer (male or female); (b) ~ gild, ~ yeld, a tax for the right to brew.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1250) Doc.in HMC Var.Col.7235 : Richard Le Breustur.
- ?c1335 Heil seint Michel (Hrl 913)p.157 : Hail be ȝe, brewesters, wiþ ȝur galuns, Potels and quartes!
- -?-(1385) Reg.Freemen York in Sur.Soc.9682 : Will. de Grenebergh, bruster.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)3.70 : Brewesters, Bakers, Bochers, and Cookes..be Men vppon Molde þat most harm worchen.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)7.294 : Ale..of þe Beste and þe Brouneste þat Brewesters sullen.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)259/58 : Þer was wonynge a Breustere.
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.66 : Euerich brewestere of myȝte of towne..þat hij make good ale, vp-on þe sale, vpon þe corn, and vp-on þe assyse.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)10.189 : Eremites þat en-habiten..in borwes a-mong brewesters.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)39 : Þe browestere.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)662 : Hec brasiatrix: a brewster.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)175 : It is ordeyned of brewsteres..that the ballyves of the forseid toun doo cryen assize of ale by all the toun, after that the sellyng of corn be.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)54 : Browstar or brewere: Pandoxator, pandoxatrix.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Meas.Treas.(Hrl 2255)102 : Bakerys, browsterys, vyntenerys.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)23/7 : Þe brewster doghter happend to be with childe.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)330/5 : Þer was a wedow at was a brewster & vsid to sell ale.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)40/31 : Alle men of craft, as..brewsterys, baxterys.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)123/29 : Boutyng þe browstere and sybyly slynge Megge mery wedyr and sabyn sprynge.
- a1525(?1434) Cov.Leet Bk.169 : That breusters selle a galon of good ale, whill hit is newe, ffor ob. qa., and when hit ys stale, ffor j d.
b
- (1348) Inquis.PM Edw.III9.44 : [Another custom called] Breustere-yeld.
- (1364) Doc.Beverley in Seld.Soc.1441 : Si aliquis communitatis reprobet affiratores de Brewestergild pro affiracione ejusdem.