† vauntparlern.

a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 21 He tryhumfythe, he trumpythe, he turnythe all vp and downe, With, skyregalyard, prowde palyard, vaunteperler, ye prate!

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxvj Then sodainly was ther in y^e counsaill, a vauntparler, a botcher which heryng this, called a great nomber of his affinitie & went out of the counsayll.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 408/1 This Prince..followed vpon a wilfull pretence..the councell and aduice of vauntperlors, & suche as (being aduanced from base degree vnto hygh authoritie) studyed more to keepe them selues in fauoure, than [etc.].

1534 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 424 It shuld be best bestowed..upon Frire Whitford, and upon Lache, whiche bee the vauntperlers, and heddes of thair faction.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 66 He doeth honestly confesse, that..Damascen [was] the first and chiefest of the lower house, he may make him Vantparlar if he will.

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 120/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Their vantparler was sir Christopher Barnwell knight, who being somewhat learned, his credit was so much the more, and by them thought most..worthie to haue beene the speaker for that house.