summoners

Updated: August 14, 2026

Hence the system tended to create spies, of whom the chief were the apparitors, or summoners, and their underlings.

Sedley Lynch Ware - The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects

The trumpeter rode forward to summons the Castle, a white flag flying from the tube of his instrument. Ere he could reach the gate, a gun boomed out from the Castle, a round shot whizzed over the heads of the summoners, and Haine roared at the top of his well-trained voice, "Come back; it is a sufficient answer."

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - St George's Cross