Middle English Dictionary Entry
corǒunẹ̄̆r n.
Entry Info
| Forms | corǒunẹ̄̆r n. Also crouner & coron(i)er, -our, corener. |
| Etymology | AF cor(o)uner (equivalent to AL custos placitorum coronae). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An officer of the Crown, elected by the county or borough, charged with the supervision of pleas of the Crown, of the administration of criminal justice, etc.; a coroner; also, an officer of the royal household. [See Pollock & Maitland, Hist.of Engl.Law (1923), 1.534, etc.]
Associated quotations
- [ (1204) Chart.R.Tower [OD col.]129/2 : Per coronarios comitatus Sumerset. ]
- [ (1250) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)1.28 : William Curuner. ]
- [ (1285) in Thuresson ME Occup.Terms140 : Gilb. le Corener. ]
- [ (c1290) Britton 1 (Lamb 403)4 : Et en noster hostel soit un Corouner, qi face le mester de la Coroune par mi la verge, par tut ou nous seroms et vienoms en noster reaume. ]
- [ (1313) in Rymer's Foedera (1816-69)2.231 : Robert le Coronner de Scardeburgh. ]
- [ (1327) Sub.R.Lei.in AASRP 19.2291 : Johannes Crownere. ]
- ?c1350 Why werre (Peterh 104)p.28 : At justices and at shiryves, Corowners and chancelers.
- (c1396) Doc.in Bk.Lond.E.233/2 : To ȝow Worschepeful Justice Sir Walter Clopton & to þe Corowner of oure lord kyng We..presenten þat [etc.].
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.50 : Twey coroners..y-swore in oure lord þe kynges by-halfe..to don here offys al-so wel in þe sok as in þe Citee.
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)266/10 : Þe gode Erl was arrestede anone, & ladde vnto the barr bifore Robert of Hamond, þat was crouner [vr. Coroner] of þe Kyngus Household.
- (c1404) *Exch.Misc.Deed (PRO) (PRO)6.28c : Þe Coroners of þe shere of Essex.
- (1433) RParl.4.476b : The seid xxv persones shall chese..ii Coronours of the seid Town, sufficient Burgeysez resseauntes within the seid Town, the which shall occupie the Office of Coronour within the seid Town..And the seid Coronours shall have the oversight of the comune werkes.
- (1436) RParl.4.501b : That no Shirreve, Bailliff of Fraunchise, ne Coroner in Actions or Writtes of atteint of Plee of Lond..empanell in noon Inquisition ne Enquest no persones but thoo enhabitauntz withynne his Baylie [etc.].
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)21 : The plees of the coroune shulden ben pleted..a forn the ballives and the corounere of the toun.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)157 : Ȝif ony burgeys of the toun..maliciously enplete the fraunchise and the state of the toun..be that burgeys somoned to comyn att a certayn day by forn the ballives and the coroneres and the communalte of the forseid toun to answeryn.
- (1444) RParl.5.111a : That the Shirref or Under Shirref, Coroners and Baillies..be there atte the same tyme in her owen person.
- (1444) RParl.5.123b : That the seid Coronours that shall be chosen from yere to yere ben sworn openly..that thei shall well and truly serve and occupie the Office of Coronour within the seid Toun and Fraunchise, and also oversee all the comune werkes of the seid Toun, and well and truly write, or make write, the parcell of the seid werkes, where and when thei ben don, and expenses and costages of hem from woke to woke delyvere unto the Baillifs.
- (1447-8) Shillingford99 : As to the comyng of eny coroner of the saide Citee within the saide fee Chirch Cimitery and paleys..for to take eny knouleche of eny felon or sight of dede man..the saide Bisshop saieth that the coroners of the saide Cite have no jurisdiccion..but only the coroner of the shire of Devenshire.
- (1450) RParl.5.191a : The makyng also and namyng of eny Justicez of Paix or Coroniers, within eny parte of oure Reawme of Englond.
- (1472) Paston (Gairdner)5.133 : Ther is no man of us indytyd but if it wer doon a for the crowners.
- (1472) RParl.6.64b : To ordeyn..that your severall Commissions be direct into every of your Shires, Citees and Burghes, beynge Countes of this youre Reame..to commaunde the Coroners of every of the said Shirez [etc.].
- a1500(a1470) Let.Marg.Anjou in Camd.86 (Add 46846)127 : Ye have do many of them to be wrongfully endited..of felonye before the crowner.