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cursitor Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈkɜːsɪtə(r)|
Forms: 6 cursetor, coursetour, -iter, 6–7 -itor, cursitour, 7 -iter, 6– cursitor.
[a. Anglo-Fr. coursetour, ad. med.L. cursitor (Ordericus Vitalis) = cursor runner. (App. formed to have the same relation to cursor, that cursitāre has to cursāre.) But the exact derivation in sense 1 is obscure.]
1. One of twenty-four officers or clerks of the Court of Chancery, whose office it was to make out all original writs de cursu, i.e. of common official course or routine, each for the particular shire or shires for which he was appointed.
The office was abolished in 1835.
1523Act 14–15 Hen. VIII, c. 8 As well the coursetours and other clerkes, as the sixe clerkes of the said Chauncery. 1641Termes de la Ley 96 Cursiter is an officer or Clerke belonging to the Chancerie..They are called Clerkes of the Course in the oath of Clerkes of the Chancery. a1655Bp. G. Goodman Crt. Jas. I, I. 280, I have heard that the cursitor's office of Yorkshire hath been sold for {pstlg}1,300. 1703Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) V. 308 Mr. Gillingham, cursitor of Monmouth and Hereford, is dead. 1767Antiq. Durham Abbey, Descr. Bishoprick 133 Court of Chancery [Durham], Mr. Thomas Hugall, Cursitor and Examiner.
†b. A secretary. Obs.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. I. 80 The..Lay Inspector..has one or two Secretaries or Cursitors under him.
†2. A running messenger, courier; also fig. Obs.
1571Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1633) 84 [He] sent Scoutes, Cursitors, Messengers..over the whole land. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxviii. iii. 337 Their office was this, by running..to be cursitours to and fro. 1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 282 The spirits, those cursitors betwixt soul and body. a1661― Worthies iii. 101 Dromedaries..are the Cursitors for travell for the Eastern Country.
†3. One who wanders about the country; a vagabond, tramp. Obs.
1567Harman (title), A Caueat or Warening, for commen cursetors vulgarely called Vagabones. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1887) 156 Common coursiters, which post about still to suruey all scholes, and neuer staie in one. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. iii. §68. 167/2 Cursitors or Vagabonds. 1725New Cant. Dict., Cursitors, the Forty-second Order of Vagabonds.
4. cursitor baron. The junior or puisne baron of the Exchequer, a subordinate member of the court who attended to matters ‘of course’ on the revenue side. The office was abolished in 1856.
1642Vernon Consid. Exchequer 33 The..Cursitor Baron being so called because he is chosen most usually out of some of the best experienced Clerkes of the two Remembrancers, or Clerke of the Pipes Office, and is to informe the Bench and the Kings learned Counsell..what the course of the Exchequer is for the preservation of the same. 1689Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 557 Mr. Bradbury, of the Middle Temple, was lately sworn cursitor baron of the exchequer. 1830Price Law of Exchequer 77 The Cursitor Baron, or, as he is sometimes called, the Fifth or Puisne Baron of the Court of Exchequer..has no judicial authority in the Court of Exchequer as a Court of Law. |