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remembrancer (1320-24)

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remembrancer (1320-24)

remembrancier,  remembrauncer  (remembracer)  
  FEW:  rememorari 10,237b Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  remembrer (remembrancer)  DMF: TLF: OED:  remembrancer n.  MED:  remembrauncer n.  DMLBS:  remembrancarius 2747b

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1occupationfinan.remembrancer, one of two clerks (king's remembrancer and lord treasurer's remembrancer) responsible for compiling towo separate classes of annual Memoranda Rolls of the Exchequer
( 1320-24 )  et puis un des remembracers de la court parla en secret a celui q’avoit primes purposé  414
( 1362 )  en l'escheqer soient diverses offices [...] remembrancers, er autres diverses places  ii 271
( 1381 )  qe le clerc de pipe et les remembrancers de l'escheqier soient jurez  iii 119
( 1406 )  les deux remembranciers, le clerc du pype, les auditours, et toutes autres officers et ministers de l'escheker  iii 588
occupationsecretary or clerk employed to keep a record or memorandum of transactions
( 1389 )  en la vie de la dite dame it estoit son servant et clerc et remembrancer de ses affaires et bien  518
fig.one who remembers, who keeps a record
( c.1378; MS: s.xivex )  Du Reson est remembrançour Que tout remeine en sa presence  14600
2record book, memorandum?
( 1371-72 )  et qe l’altre graunt papier sera gysant en une cofre ovesqe aultres choses pur un remembrauncer; pris de ceste novelle papier - .ij. s. .x. d.  146
remembrancer le tresorier
occupationfinan.Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer, senior officer of the Exchequer
( 1323 )  Et ce soit baillé au remembrauncer le Tresorier a garder  iii 852

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See also:

remembrable  remembrance  remembrement  remembrer 
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