Defined in 1 dictionary — Black's (1891)
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In old English law. Keeper of the pleas of the crown. Bract. fol. 146. Cowell supposes this office to have been the same with the custos rotulorum, But it seems rather to have been another name for “coroner.” Crabb, Eng. Law, 150; Bract. fol. 1360,