Definition of "herdman"

And the heerd toke their courſe / and ran heedlynge into the lake / and wer choked. when the herdmẽ ſawe what had chaunſed / they fleed / and tolde it in the cite and in the villages.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Luke viij:[33–34], folio lxxxviij, recto