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† ˈhanaster, ˈhanster Obs.
Also 4 hauncer, ? 5 handster, -ester.
[The earliest form cited by Brian Twyne from Oxford City documents is hauncer; hanster occurs in 14–15th c.; handester is mentioned by Twyne as also found by him; the usual form after 1500 was hanaster, latinized hanasterius. The earlier forms hauncer, hanster, favour the view that the word was a derivative of hansa or hanse: cf. esp. hansing s.v. hanse.]
The name given (in the city of Oxford) to persons paying the entrance-fee of the guild-merchant (see Hanse 2), and admitted as Freeman of the City.
1321–2Oxf. City Doc., in Twyne's MSS. XXIII. 241 [in Rot. Comp. Camerariorum de anno xvo Regis Edw. II.] Item, summa rect des Hauncers hoc anno vij li. xi s. 1393Ibid. [In Rot. Comp. Camerar. de an. 17o Ric. II.] Item recept, de admissis in gilda hoc anno 17 li. 2s. 1399Ibid. [In alio rentali sive computo de 230 Ric. II.] Item recept. de Hansters hoc anno 7 li. 2s. 6d. 1410[in Rot. Comp. de xio Henr. IV] Comput. de Hansteris hoc anno 14 li xis. 6d. 1519Title of List in Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 23 Hanasterii ibidem tempore Johannis Traves maioris, Walteri Gover et Johannis Kyng Camerariorum, Anno regni regis Henrici Octavi undecimo. c1608Bryan Twyne MSS. Collecta XXIII. 241 (Note to quot. 1399) Hansters, sive ut alibi legitur ibidem Handesters..Conjicio autem hoc vocabulo denotari illos quos frequentius illic vocari observavimus Intrantes sive Admissos eo anno in gildæ Aulam. [margin] Hansters et Hanasters, et sunt apprentitii ad libertatem civitatis vocati, et ita dicuntur Oxoniæ hodierno die, vocabulo ab Hanse deriuato. 1887C. W. Boase Oxford 44 In the sixteenth century they [the chamberlains] were still joined with the mayor in admitting the new hanasters or members of the trading corporation. 1890Gross Gild Merchant II. 194 Oxford..Those admitted to the Gild or freedom seem to have borne the name ‘hanasters’. Among the town muniments there is a book containing lists of the latter. |