Also 4–5 brouderer. An earlier form of BROIDERER, retained as the name of one of the London City Companies, ranking as 34th among the City Livery Guilds.
1376. Lett. Bk. H. lf. xlvii. in City Records, 50 Edw. III. Nicholas Halley, Robert Ascombe, Brouderers.
1388. Wyclif, Exod. xxviii. 39. Werk of a broderere.
1398. Test. Ebor. (1836), I. 227. Mon vestment … lequele je achatay de Courceray brouderer de Londres.
1488–9. Act 4 Hen. VII., xxii. The Wardeyn and felishipp of brouderers in your Cite of London.
1865. Blue Bk. City of Lond. & Liv. Comp. Commission, V. 67. The Keeper or Warden and Society of the art or mistery of Broderers of the City of London. Ibid. The Broderers Company were known by the name of ‘Imbroiderers incorporate for ever.’
