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Ventenar, Vintenar, n. Also: ventener, -tinar, -er, -tonar, -er, -taner, -tennar, wentiner, vintinar, -er, ventner, venttnair, vintnar(e, vintner, wininer. [ME and e.m.E. vyntener (Lydgate), vyntyner (c1470), vyntoner (1530), altered f. viniter (1297), vintere (Lydgate), OF vinet(t)ier, med. L. vinetarius, vinatarius.] a. A vintner, a wine merchant. Also as a personal name. Also comb. Some examples may belong in b. b. A merchant more generally, chiefly ventenar of wyne. Cf. Ventar n.¹a. (1) 1508 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 119.
Quhane ony strangeris cummys with wyne … that the vintenaris sall cheis … vj personis … to bye the hale hoip of wynis a1605 Birrel Diary 53.
That nae vintenars sould sell wyne better chepe nor 6 the pynt(b) 1601 Reg. Privy C. VI 291.
Ventenaris and rynnaris of the wynis 1613 Reg. Privy C. IX 553.
That all … ventennaris and rynnaris of wyne, will … pay the said dewtie 1668 Culross I 345.
The brewaris and venteneris(c) 1602 Reg. Privy C. VI 513.
The same impost was not onlie grevous to the venttnairis and rynnairis of the wynis, bot [etc.] 1689 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII 507.
James Irvine, ventner(d) 1647 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII 422.
To Thomas Wilsone ventinar for ane super … gevine to Cornel Rae and his officers … £88 6 s. 1658 Dumfries Council Min. MS 18 Jan.
The counsall … hes ordaynit the haill ventineris that have not declairit vpon oath to be imprysoned whill thai give securitie for the tounes releiff of the impost of wynes 1667 Edinb. Test. LXXIII 9.
Wentiner 1671 Edinb. B. Rec. X 112.
[The Council] recommends to … [the] thesaurer and the baillies … to meet and call before them the ventiners of Leith 1676 Glasgow B. Rec. III 221.
All persones … ather importer or ventiner, that sellis any brandie 1687 Ayr Chart. 72.
All and sundrie persones brewers ventiners sellars and retaillers(e) 1650 Elgin Rec. I 287.
Vintenaris 1662 Edinb. Test. Index II 367.
John Aikman, vintiner c1679 Kirkton Hist. 114.
Scotland hade been … most quiet some years preceding that date, so that the vintiners complained they were broke for want of customers. But then, indeed, the fashion changed(f) 1671 Lauder Notices Affairs I 18.
To cause them depone upon oath whow much wine they had sold … This the merchands refused to do as a thing extraordinar … and done only of purpose to make all ventoners go by them, and so break their trade 1674 Stirling B. Rec. II 16.
The magistrats is to meit for ordoring quarters for the conventione of burrous … and to ordain all ventoners to have meat and drink againest the same tyme(g) 1664 Greyfriars Interments 516.
Vintner 1695 McKay Kilmarnock 8.
[In 1695 it was enacted that] no ale be sold by vintners after ten o'clock on Saturday nights(h) 1664 Greyfriars Interments 516.
James Pewterer, wininer(2) 1524 Carnwath Baron Ct. (SHS) 17.
Andro Penne folloit in court Thom Vintnare for the vrangus dryvin of his meire … in ane myre … the inqueist … ordanis Thom Vintnar to pay the mere als mekill as Andro Penne can preif that scho vas vorth(3) comb. 1646 Stirling B. Rec. I 191.
Anent the collection of excyse … the wyne vintinaris [pr. unctinaris] to be summond 1686 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII 107.
[Robert Petrie … being a] … merchant vintinerb. (1) 1613 Dundee B. Laws 151.
All stowpes … vsed be ventaneris of wine within this brugh 1624 Peebles Gleanings 74.
The ventenaris of the wyne to be citat to the nixt Weddinsday anent the impost of wine 1630 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III 647.
The venteners of thair said wynes will not be abill be ressone off the … laik off saill thairoff and thair povertie get thair maintenance tharby 1636 Elgin Rec. I 255.
Ventonaris of wyne 1642 Elgin Rec. I 272.
The ventenaris of wyne to be warnit to Thursdaye nixt eftir the prayeris in the morning, viz., Elspet Annand, Issobell Hardie [etc.] 1643 S. Leith Rec. 44.
That no ventenars of wyn … sell any drink efter 10 hours at even 1668 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 249.
The councell … considdering that tavirnerris and uentineris of aill and wyne aught to accommodat such persones [sc. strangers], … therfor … ordaines that all ventineris of the forsaid comodities, receave … such persones, and have sufficient provisione at all tymes requisite(2) 1637 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II 111.
If your honour heard the pitiefull exclamationes of all the craftes men ventiners and communitie for want of exchange, as I heare … as if I were able to coyne money at my pleasour … your honour would [etc.] 1638 Old Dundee I 429.
[A supplication was presented to the council by three] merchants and certain others their copartners, ventiners and utterers of tobacco against the tacksmen [who … grant licences for] the sale of tobacco … for [etc.]