Taverner
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
(Law Fr. and Eng.; Fr. tavernier, from taverne).
In old English law
A seller of wine; one who kept a house or shop for the sale of wine. Et puis soit enquis de tavemers que aunt vendu vyns encontre la droit assise, and afterwards it shall be inquired of tavemers who have sold wines against the right assize. Britt. c.
30.
A retailer of wines. Hardr. 338. "Taverner" is used as the addition of a person in a writ in the Register.
Reg. Orig. 195.
But "tavern keeper" has now, for the most part, taken its place.