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1565 Ordinance Bk. Merchants of Staple (1937) 106 For thelection of the officers and admission of redemptioners into the fredome.

1617 in M. Sellers Eastland Co. (1906) 17 Not to bee admitted but as a Redemptioner.

1837 Times 11 Oct. 7/5 Redemptioners cannot acquire the right of voting in Common Hall without resorting to a company to obtain their franchise.

1848 Hist. Memoranda (Coopers Company) 116 In 1545, £1 6s. 8d. was received from a person for his entrance, to be accepted as a brother; and in 1560, 40s. from another, for his admission as a redemptioner, beyond his oath-money of 3s. 4d.

1902 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 16 28 Redemptioners had to pay ‘doble Imposition to the house for the space of seaven yeares next after their Admissions’.

1982 Eng. Hist. Rev. 97 270 Thomas More was admitted to the Mercers' Company, ‘frank and free’. Ordinary membership was a privilege usually reserved for those who..were prepared to pay an entrance fine as ‘redemptioners’.

1771 C. Carroll Let. 5 Apr. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1918) 13 174 Try, if & Redemptioner, to get Him on the terms agreed to by Robert &c, if an Indented servant get Him on the best terms you can.

1775 Rivington's N.Y. Gaz. 30 Mar. 4/2 To be disposed of, for a term of years, a number of Servants and Redemptioners, just arrived from England.

1805 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 38 With respect to the German redemptioners, you know I can do nothing.

1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 29 Sept. Passengers to the States may be brought out, not as free emigrants, but as ‘redemptioners’, owing their passage-money to the company, who are to have a lien on their earnings until this debt is discharged.

1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South Introd. p. ix These people belonged in the main to a physically inferior type, having sprung for the most part from the convict servants, redemptioners, and debtors of old Virginia and Georgia.

1980 J. A. Hostetler Amish Society (ed. 3) iii. 60 Some Amish who were unable to pay for their passage came to America as redemptioners.

2001 Columbia Law Rev. 101 663 Sally Miller..claimed to be a German redemptioner kidnapped into slavery.

?1798 Observ. Act Redempt. Land Tax 43 Every redemptioner or purchaser must register his certificate, contract, and receipt within four months.

1850 Code Civil Procedure State N.Y. ix. i. §847 357 The property may be again, and as often as the debtor or owner, or any redemptioner is so disposed, redeemed from any redemptioner within thirty days after his redemption.

1897 Board Agric. Leaflet No. 39 No fee is payable by a redemptioner for such information.

1905 Econ. Jrnl. 15 380 The advantage to the redemptioner would be considerable. He would pay twenty years' purchase, spread over ten instalments, a great gain compared with the present limit.

1953 Michigan Law Rev. 51 314 In the principal case the mortgagee had made extensive improvements on the land, and there were also facts tending to establish an estoppel against the redemptioner.

2005 BusinessWorld (Nexis) 19 Aug. s1 The redemptioner should make an actual tender in good faith of the full amount of the purchase price.