Also 5 affurer, 6–7 afferour, 7 affearer. [a. OFr. affeureur, aforeur (Anglo-Fr. *affereur, -our):—late L. afforātōr-em, n. of agent f. afforā-re: see AFFEER.] He that affeers.
1467. Ordin. Worc., in E. E. Gilds, 395. Affurers of good name.
1523. Fitzherbert, Surveying, 21. The othe of afferoure: I shall truely affere this court, and highe no man for no hate, ne lowe no man for no loue, but to sette euery man truely after the quantite of his trespace.
1615. Manwood, Lawes of Forest, xxv. § 1. 252/2. They shal be amerced and their amercement shall be affeared by affearers there.
1641. Termes de la Ley, 13. Affeerors are such as be appointed in Court leets, &c. to mulct such as have committed any fault which is arbitrably punishable, & for which no expresse penalty is prescribed by Statute.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., IV. 373. This method, of liquidating the amercement to a precise sum, is usually done in the court-leet and court-baron by affeerors, or jurors sworn to affeere, that is, tax and moderate, the general amercement according to the particular circumstances of the offence and the offender.
