A *friar who had exclusive begging rights within a specified area; sometimes known derisively as procurators, a reference to the king's *pur-veyors or procurers, who were also very unpopular. (The procurator was also a Roman tax gatherer.) Their activities simply added another group of men going round the country *begging, however worthy the cause might once have been. Langland, in Piers Plowman, refers to a limitour as a losel, i.e. a vagabond.
Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases. Christopher Coredon with Ann Williams.