hogherdn.

1279 in W. Page Three Early Assize Rolls Northumberland (1891) 313 (MED) Willelmus Hoggehird.

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 1979 (MED) Merlin dede him se In o day in þre ble..an hogges herd..a chapman..a fair swain.

a1400 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 163 (MED) Þer comes one out of þe skye in a grey goun, As it were an hoghyerd hyand to toun.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl.) (1876) VI. 233 Segeberte..was sleyne of the hoggeherde [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. swynherde, L. porcarius] of the duke.

1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes lxxxviii, in Wks. sig. Ddiii^v Where hogis be parishoners, hogherd must be best.

a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1985) i. 45 I trow her cummeth sum hoggherd Callyng for his pygges.

1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. i. 18 Nor boorish Hog-heard fed his rooting Swine.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 72/1 Tamberlain, in his Youth was a Hog-herd, or Swineherd, and after by his Vertues, a Stout Warriour and King of Scythia.

a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 11 A wonderful Encouragement indeed 'tis for a Man to turn Country Parson: May I rather be a Hog-heard.

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. 293 Do you know..that your father was no better than my father's hog-herd?

1840 D. L. Richardson Lit. Leaves (ed. 2) II. 176 The trough wherein the hog-herd fed his swine.

1878 Catholic World Mar. 819/1 Since Sixtus V. (1585–1595), who is said to have been a hogherd in his youth, all the popes have belonged to noble families.

1912 R. H. Benson Come Rack! Come Rope! iii. i. 225 Half the hog-herds and shepherds of the Peak are her sworn men.

1991 G. G. Stevenson Common Prop. Econ. v. 155 The jobs of shepherds, hogherds, and goatherds were community positions in both England and Switzerland wherever community herds were kept.