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REMEMBRANCER , the name originally of certain subordinate See also:officers of the See also:English See also:Exchequer. The See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office itself is of See also:great antiquity, the holder having been termed remembrancer, memorator, rememorator, registrar, keeper of the See also:register, despatcher of business (Maddox, See also:History of the Exchequer). There were at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time three clerks of the remembrance, styled See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's remembrancer, See also:lord treasurer's remembrancer and remembrancer of first-fruits. The latter two offices have become See also:extinct, that of remembrancer of first-fruits by the diversion of the fund (See also:Queen See also:Anne's See also:Bounty See also:Act 1838), and that of lord treasurer's remembrancer on being merged in the office of king's remembrancer (1833). By the Queen's Remembrancer Act 1859 the office ceased to exist separately, and the queen's remembrancer was required to be a See also:master of the See also:court of exchequer. The Judicature Act 1873, s. 77, attached the office to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act 1879 transferred it to the central office of the Supreme Court. By s. 8 the king's remembrancer is a master of the Supreme Court, and the office is usually filled by the See also:senior master. The king's remembrancer See also:department of the central office is now amalgamated with the judgments and married See also:women's acknowledgments department. The king'sremembrancer still assists at certain ceremonial functions—See also:relics of the former importance of the office—such as the nomination of sheriffs, the See also:- SWEARING (O. Eng. swerian, to swear, originally to speak aloud, cf. andswerian, to answer, Ger. schworen, Dan. svaerge, &c., all from root sorer-, to make a sound, cf. " swarm," properly the buzzing of bees, Lat. susurrus)
swearing-in of the lord See also:mayor of See also:London, the trial of the See also:pyx and the acknowledgments of See also:homage for See also:crown lands. Other duties are set out in the Second See also:Report of the Legal Departments See also:Commission, 1894.
" Remembrancer " is also the See also:title of an See also:official of the See also:corporation of the See also:city of London, whose See also:principal See also:duty is to represent that See also:body before See also:parliamentary committees and at See also:council and See also:treasury boards.
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