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† rent-gatherer Obs.
[rent n.1]
One who collects rents for or on behalf of another.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xvi. (Tollem. MS.), The rente gederer was defamid to his lorde þat he hadde wastid his good and catell. 1435–6in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 419 Paid to the rente gaderer ffor ij yeers laborying abouten..gaderyng of the seide rente. 1535Coverdale I Kings xii. 18 Whan kynge Roboam sent thither Adoram the rentgatherer, all Israel stoned him to death. 1644Vicars God in Mount 135 The Bishop of Winchesters Rent-gatherer and Steward of his Courts. |