rent-gatherer

One day, said Friar John, at Seuille, I had applied to my posteriors, by way of hind-towel, a leaf of an old Clementinae which our rent-gatherer, John Guimard, had thrown out into the green of our cloister.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

One day, said Friar John, at Seuille, I had applied to my posteriors, by way of hind-towel, a leaf of an old Clementinae which our rent-gatherer, John Guimard, had thrown out into the green of our cloister.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

And you, Fraud, shall be my rent-gatherer, my letter of leases, and my purchaser of land,

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

ON reaching the ruined village where the Pandy stood I stopped, and looked up the gloomy valley to the west, down which the brook which joins the Ceiriog at this place, descends, whereupon John Jones said, that if I wished to go up it a little way he should have great pleasure in attending me, and that he should show me a cottage built in the hen ddull, or old fashion, to which he frequently went to ask for the rent; he being employed by various individuals in the capacity of rent-gatherer.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004