Crossword-Solution: ARMIGERS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

And truly, the Dulverton people said that he was the richest man in their town, and could buy up half the county armigers; 'ay, and if it came to that, they would like to see any man, at Bampton, or at Wivelscombe, and you might say almost Taunton, who could put down golden Jacobus and Carolus against him.

Those of the old magnates who did not become knights were known as armigers, or armor-clad foot-soldiers.

The armigers also became an hereditary class, and before long they too were exempted from crown taxation.

Among those present were four of the six bishops,--all except the bishops of Vexiö and Skara,--of laymen, Hemming Gad and the father of young Gustavus, besides some ten other knights and armigers, the burgomaster and Council of Stockholm, and a large number of delegates from the peasantry.

Whereupon the bold Sutton first mounted the stage, Made his honours as usual, and yearned to engage; When Fig, with a visage so fierce, yet sedate, Came and entered the lists with his fresh shaven pate; Their arms were encircled with armigers too, With a red ribbon Sutton’s, and Fig’s with a blue.