Wer

According to the Old English Dictionary:

(were?), es;

wer

m. n. (?) A guard (? cf. werian, warn), a troop, band :-- Were manipulo (coelestis militiae manipulo, Ald. 50), Wrt. Voc. ii. 83, 2 : 56, 75. In ic wæs cempena láreów, and mid mycclum were ymbseald, nú ic eom ána forlǽten, Homl. Skt. ii. 30, 195. wer