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vergers

n. (plural of verger English)

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They could only be the sextons and vergers and such-like, who got up at night, and put on the robes of deans and bishops, and called each other grand names, as the foolish servants he had heard his father tell of call themselves lords and ladies, after their masters and mistresses.

And then, was it nothing to have the entire supremacy over the keeper, the warden, the gaoler, and the two auditors of the Châtelet, the sixteen commissaries of the sixteen quarters, the hundred and twenty horse-patrols, the hundred and twenty vergers, and the whole of the watch of the city?