Aldermannus

Lat.

In old English law

An alderman

Aldermannus civitatis vel burgi: alderman of a city or borough; the original of the modern office. Aldermannus comitatus: alderman of the county; an officer of high distinction among the Saxons, supposed to have been the same as the earl or schireman. Aldermannus hundredi seu wapentachii: alderman of a hundred or wapentake. Aldermannus regis: the king's alderman; a high judicial officer. Aldermannus totius Angliae: alderman of all England; an Anglo-Saxon officer supposed to be the same as the chief justiciary of later times.