summonistern.
/ˈsʌmənˌɪstə/, U.S. /ˈsəmənˌɪstər/ Now historical.
An officer of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland responsible for fining people for non-attendance in court, thereby assisting in collecting the royal revenues. Cf. summonitor n.
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c1625 in Cal. State Papers Irel. 1669–70 (1910) 349 Second chamberlain, 5l.; clerk of the Common Pleas, 5l.; summonister 10l.
1776 G. E. Howard Treat. Exchequer & Revenue Ireland I. ii. 17 (heading) The Clerk of the Estreats and Summonister.
1835 Act 5 & 6 William IV c. 55 §18 The following Offices of the said Court of Exchequer in Ireland..are hereby abolished;..Summonister and Clerk of the Estreats.
1940 Irish Hist. Stud. 2 82 He accumulated a vast collection of material from many sources—wills, pipe rolls, summonister rolls, chancery bills etc.
1954 J. Carswell Old Cause i. 11 Transcriptors and filacers, summonisters and protonotaries, chirographers, cursitors, clerks of the pipe and pursuivants of the exchequer—the whole apparatus of Tudor and Stuart colonial rule.
2016 W. Roulston in D. Edwards Scots in Early Stuart Ireland iii. 109 The many names that have survived in the summonisters' rolls, listing those who were fined for non-attendance at the assizes or for failing to serve on juries as and when required.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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