SARJEANT

SARJEANT. SARGENT. O.Fr. from Lat. Spelmau says a serjeant-at-law is so called because serviensa. legem. We have also serjeants-at-arms, serjeants-at-mace, &c. Cotgrave makes a sergent, " a footman or souldier that serves on foot." Gibbon, on the contrary, applies the word to " all horsemen who were not knights." PJchardson.

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