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sergeant of arms
5. sergeant-at-arms n. (Also serjeant-at-arms, †sergeant of arms.) (a) In early use gen.: an armed officer in the service of a lord (cf. sense 1); spec. one of a body of men of knightly rank, originally 24 in number, who were required to be in immediate attendance on the king's person, to arrest traitors and other offenders; (b) an officer of each of the two Houses of Parliament, who is charged with the duty of enforcing the commands of the House, the arrest of offenders, etc.; (hence) an officer having corresponding duties under certain other legislative assemblies, as the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
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1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 335 Now is Pieres to þe plow & pruyde it aspyde, And gadered hym a grete oest..And sente forth surquydous his seriaunt of armes.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 632 He sendez furthe sodaynly sergeantes of armes.
1447 J. Douebiggyng in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 269 There bode not with hym [a bishop] ouer xij persones atte the most, with his seriaunt of armes, wheche seriaunt was fayn to ley doun his mase.
1449 Rolls of Parl. V. 159/1 One of the Sargeauntes of Armes of our Soverayne Lord the Kyng.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. lxxxviii. 569 Thre sergeauntes of armes.
1473 Rolls of Parl. VI. 84/1 His Office of oone of oure Sergeauntes at Armes.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 187 A yeman of þe crowne, Sargeaunt of armes with mace.
1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 2. §8 Serjauntes of Armes that be purposely ordeyned for the personall attendaunce of the..King.
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 496 Ric. Shawe was arrested be þe seriaunt of armes þat brought þe writyng & caried vp to Wodstok vnto þe kyng.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 45 A sergant at harmes of the parlament howse.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Apparitor regis, a serieaunt at armes.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. i. 7 A Serjeant at Armes, who shall beare the Mace of the Queenes Majesties Armes before him.
1710 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 23) i. ii. xiii. 96 Knocking at the Door of the House of Commons, which thereupon is by the Serjeant at Arms attending the House opened.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xix. 259 The lord high steward directs a precept to a serjeant at arms, to summon the lords to attend and try the indicted peer.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xiii. 367 Four counsel..were taken into custody of the Serjeant-at-arms by the speaker's warrant.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) viii. 89 Seats for this space are in the gift of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
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