Definition of "Swisser"

Being impossible to conclude and accord any agreement betweene the Pope and the King of France, the Swissers came to serue the Pope, of whose valour and power the French stood much in feare.

1601, ‘WT’, translating Lord Remy of Florence, Civill considerations vpon many and svndrie histories, p. 111

A Spaniard can not well brooke to feede after our fashion, nor we endure to drinke as the Swizzers.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.13

Where is my Swissers, let them guard the doore.

1604, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, IV.5

The Austrian Princes and the Swissers, I have still heard, are from father to sonne, hereditary and irreconcilable enimies.

1624, “Vox Cœli, or News from Heaven”, in Somer's Tracts, volume II, London, published 1809