? erron. form of brauderer, BROIDERER: but the passages are obscure.
1387. Trevisa, Higden, Rolls Ser. III. 77. [Tullus Hostilius] … vsede purpur, a maner reed cloþinge of kynges and branderers and reueres [orig. purpura et fascibus usus est].
c. 1530. in Gutch, Coll. Cur., II. 287. Deliveryd to my said Lordis Branderars of his Copis in small Perle … poiss. iiij oz. Ibid., II. 289. Deliveryd in gilte spangillis for my Lordis Footmen Coolis to Stevyn Humble Branderer poiss. clvj oz.
