The keeper of the rolls. The principal justice of the peace in a county, the keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace.
"In my way Washington overtook me and told me upon my question whether he knew of any place now void that I might have, by power over friends, that this day Mr. G. Montagu was to be made Custos Rotulorum for Westminster, and that by friends I might get to be named by him Clerk of the Peace, with which I was, as I am at all new things, very much joyed."
Samuel Pepys, Diary (March 7, 1660).
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