Camerarius
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from camera, a chamber or treasury.] In old European law. A chamberlain; a keeper of the treasure chamber; a keeper of the public money; a treasurer. Peregrinus de jure fisci, lib.
6, tit. 13, cited in Cowell, voc. Chamberlain.
Camerarius dicitur a camera, i. e. testudine sive fomice, quia eustodit pecuniae quce in cameris prcedpue reservaniur. Onupkrius de interpr. voc, JEJcclesicB, cited ibid. See Spelman, voc.
Cambe/lanus. Towns. PL 48.
Used in this sense in England, in the times of the Anglo Saxons. Ealred in vit. S. Edw, Conf. c. ii. p. 9, cited, P. Cyclopasdia, It occurs also m the Domesday Survey. Ibid, A bailiff or receiver.
Slat, Westm. 2, c. 11. 2 Inst. 380.