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essaiator

essaiator [cf. OF essaieor] , assayer: a (of mines); b (of metal or coinage); c (of weights and measures); d (of bread). a 1307 in expensis factis circa quoddam assag[ium] mine factum per L. R. assagiatorem regis in Anglia ‥ vij d. ob. KR Ac 260/19 m. 3.  b 1182 in ‥ conductu W. H. ~oris Cantuarie a Wintona usque London’ Pipe 146; 1217 assaiatores ex parte regis Thomas Aurifaber et ex parte archiepiscopi Rannulfus Aurifaber KR Mem 1 m. 3; 1221 monetarii, custodes, operarii, et essaetores Pat 322; 1221 asaiator monete R. de G. LTR Mem 4 m. 5 (3)d.; 1236 W. H. presentavit ‥ Ernaldum Ruffum, aurifabrum, ~orem monete Cantuar’ loco Roberti le Eschanjor KR Mem 15 m. 15d.; 1253 preposuimus in dicta moneta temptatorem seu esseiatorem nostrum et custodes‥. ~or debet esse ad sumptus magistrorum (Pat) RGasc I 273; 1253 (v. 1 computator 1d); 1253 (v. essaiare a); a1273 in cambio erit unus assayator qui debet assayare platas ante quam defera[n]tur ad cuneum, quod sint recti ponderis et de bono argento, et faciet quamlibet assayam de xx platis ponderantibus xx denarios legalis monete RBExch III 984; 1398 constituimus dilectum nobis Willelmum Fitz Hugh contrarotulatorem magistri ac camsoris et assaiatoris monete nostre infra Turrim London’ Pat 350 m. 16.  c 13‥ assiator et afforiator mensurarum (v. afforator b).  d abstrahe medietatem de pondere panis facti per assaiatores MGL I 352.

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