Ab Actis

Lat. A notary, clerk, or actuary; one who keeps, or has charge ofocto, public registers, journals, or records. See Acta, This, and the similarly formjed epithets a cancel Us, h secretis, a lihellis, were also anciently the titles of a chancellor, {cancellariu Sy) in the early history of that office. Spelman, voc. Cancellarius. «