Meaning

(obsolete, Early Modern) A protector, especially a patron saint..

Example Sentences

and also I beseche our blissed lady seynt Mary wᵗ the speciall helpe of all the holy company of heven and of myn advowrers³ Petir and Pawle, seynt Frideswide, seynt barbara, seynt brigett, seynt Kateryne, & King Henry⁴ if he be soo at our lordes accepted, to be mediators for my soule, and all my frendes here in yerthe to pray for me.

First I bequeth to almighty god and to the blissed Trinitie, to the blissed virgyn saint Mary our lady and to all saint[s] and martirs, saint george saint Kateryn saint Antony myn advowerers and to all the blissed holy company in heven, most humbly requiryng the said Trinitie that they by the mediacion & intercession of myn advowrers that the company aforsaid will haue mercy and petie of my soule and conveye the same vnto the way of saluacion And my body to be buried before the Trinitie in Barsham chirch on the north side vnder the foundacion of the Chauncel wall.

To se there our speciall frendes and acquayntance which we had here before in this lyfe / to se the other sayntes whiche we dyd chuse for our aduowrers and patrons here in erthe, and whom specyally we dyd worshyp in this worlde.

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• advowrers

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