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† check-roll Obs.
[App. a later variant of checker-roll; perhaps partly phonetic, through running together of the two r's in checker-roll, but probably established by being associated in thought with check v. Checker-roll is the form first occurring in official documents; later quotations of these often change it to check-roll.]
1. = checker-roll: a roll or list containing the names, etc., of persons in the service of the sovereign and chargeable to the royal exchequer; used to ‘check’ their payment, performance of duty, etc.
1450Paston Lett. 117 I. 157 It is seid that he [K. Hen. VI] hath do wretyn to alle his men that be in the chekroll to awayte on hym atte parlement in theer best aray. 1539Househ. Ord. in Thynne Animadv. (1865) Introd. 34 The said Clerkes-Comptrollers shall make for every Quarter in the Yeare, a roule of Parchment that shall be called the Check-Roll. 1642W. Bird Mag. Honor. 156 The Check-Roll of the King's honourable houshold [a quot. of Statute 1486, which has Cheker-roll]. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 273.
2. A list of the servants of any large household.
1577Holinshed Chron. III. 1257/2 His [Earl of Derby's] famous housekeeping, and eleuen score in checkroll. 1622F. Markham Bk. Warre v. ii. 165 So shall you..adde to the check-role of your seruants another faithfull Obseruer. 1636J. Trussell in Ann. Dubrensia (1877) 7 This carefull thriving age, In which a Coach, a Foote-boy and a Page, Makes up a great mans Check-rowle.
3. fig. A muster-roll, call-roll; a list whereby persons or things may be checked off as present.
1599Nashe Lent. Stuffe 32 In the checkroule of his Ianissaries. 1600Holland Livy xxiv. xviii. 520 To rase out of the publicke checkroll [tabulis] of the younger cittizens, the names, etc. 1603Florio Montaigne iii. iii. (1632) 462 Arte is but the Checke roule, and Register of the Productions uttered..by them [Wits]. 1626T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 382 The Hymne of the 3 Children in the furnace, who called al creatures, as by a check-rowle, to the prayses of God. 1653Holcroft Procopius ii. 44 Germanus..mustered the forces, and by the Check Roll of the soldiers names, he found a third part of them to be in Carthage. |