Nuntius
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or NUNCIUS. In old English practice. One who made excuse for absence of one summoned; an apparitor, beadle, or sergeant.
Cowell.
A messenger or legate, e. g., pope's nuncio. Jacob. Essoniator was sometimes wrongly used for nuntius in the first sense. Bracton, fol.
345, § 2.