hanaster

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noun

A person paying the entrance fee of the guild merchant, and admitted as a freeman of the city of Oxford.

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nounhanaster (plural hanasters)

plural hanasters · alternative hanster

  1. UKhistoricalA person paying the entrance fee of the guild merchant, and admitted as a freeman of the city of Oxford.

    No trade gild might be started without the consent of the whole body of hanasters, who would insist that the regulations were not harmful to the burgesses as a whole; […]

    1920, H. E. Salter, Munimenta Civitatis Oxonie, volume 71, page xxviii

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