Definition of "tratler"

For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis?And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.

c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.

A tratler is worſe then a thief.

1678, John Ray, A Collection of Engliſh Proverbs, page 357