Definition of "numbre"

Also I advertise you, that one Sher’ Thursday last, I was secretly informyd, that a gret numbre of yomen of the countrey woll shortely com to me, to desier me to be a meane for thaym to the Kinges grace, to have thair loone money agayne.

1858, Willam Cantuar, Archæologia Cantiana, volume I, page 37