sutler

The Sailor's Word-Book

A victualler who follows the camp to sell provisions to the troops. In garrisons and garrison-towns there are also sutlers who provide victuals of every kind; but Drayton's sutlers must have been very petty traders, as, when at Agincourt, Isambert's "rascals" were noted


"For setting on those with the luggage left,

A few poor sutlers with the campe that went,

They basely fell to pillage and to theft."

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