1495 (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §43. m. 26 Many gode statutis and ordinanaunces be made for þe Punysshment of riottis, unlawefull assemblees, reteyndours and gevyng and receyvyng of lyverees, signees and tokyns unlaufully.
a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) II. f. cciiiv Temporall Lordes in those dayes kept other maner of housholdes and other maner of Reteyndour of Housholde seruauntes.
1545 in (1836) V. 408 Charging all the saide tenauntes..in no wise to agre to anye suche reteynder with anye other mane.
1659 H. Applegarth tr. W. Glisson & A. Gulston 168 One retayned in England to do service beyond the sea shall have debt in England where the retainder was.
1735 E. Gibson (ed. 3) xxxvii. 326 The Retainder is good after Marriage.
1783 16 If a nobleman or noblewoman retains a chaplain, and dies, the chaplain cannot take two benefices within this act, yet the retainder was lawful.
1822 G. Brodie I. i. 124 To strengthen her adherents with military power, Mary granted licences of retainder to them against the laws.
1856 Sept. 273 These were the most remarkable contributions of Johnson during the first year of his retainder in our service.
1952 J. D. Mackie vii. 197 The retainder of the king's servants was condemned by an act of 1487; retainder generally by an act of 1504.
1996 M. H. Keen iii. 59 Retainder, like the compacts between brothers-in-arms, was normally based either on a solemn oath, or on the exchange of sealed documents (indentures).