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1384 in R. R. Sharpe (1907) H. 234 (MED) [The place..is now occupied by foreigners called] Ripieres [bringing sea-fish to the City for sale].
1438 178 (MED) [Thomas Kenne] rypier [holds to him and his heirs a tenement in Brightlyng].
1450 Patent Roll, Henry VI in (1868) 7 260 (MED) Wills Mugge de Goodherste, rypyer.
a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) II. f. clxixv Repiers and other Fisshers commynge with Fysshe from Rye, and Wynchylsee.
c1530 in R. Dyboski (1908) 159 This yere..the rypears sold fish at London Hall in þe Lent.
a1552 J. Leland (1711) V. 64 A poore Market, much standing by Repears that cary Fische from the Quarters of Cairmardine to the lowers Partes of Wales.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus ii. 89 The hyewaies from both the seas sounded of nothing els but of caters and ripiers.
1612 G. Chapman ii. i. sig. Dv I can send you speedier aduertisement of her constancie, by the next Ripier that rides that way with Mackerell.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Alphabet. Dict. in sig. Ooo Ripier, [Carrier of fish].
1707 Ripier, one that brings Fish from the Sea Coasts to sell in the Inland Parts.
1733 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche I. i. ix. 247 My Steward paid the Ripier for some Fish he had caught.
1853 W. D. Cooper (ed. 2) 70 Ripiers, men from the sea-shore who sell fish to inland towns and villages.
1915 19 210 The turnpike act of 1709 exempted these ripiers from paying tolls on the Tunbridge Wells–London Road.
2006 M. E. Mate iv. 45 It was argued that if the ripiers were forced to cut back on the number of their horses, then..in some months Londoners and the royal household might find themselves without any fish at all.