summonitor

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• Summoner — Official attached to an ecclesiastical court, whose duty was to bring to court those summoned by the archdeacon for offences against *canon law. By the time Chaucer wrote The Friar s Tale, they were regarded as snoops and blackmailers. The Latin… …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

• protocole — Protocole, m. penac. Est le registre des minutes ou primitifs originaux des contracts que les notaires reçoivent en brief et par et cetera, Protocollum, l Italien dit aussi, Protocollo pour le mesmes, Procolypi contractuum testamentorum… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

• somoniter — obs. var. summonitor …   Useful english dictionary