† checker-rollchequer-rolln.
Obsolete.
A roll of persons chargeable to the royal exchequer; check-roll n. transferred a roll or list of persons.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > list of servants > royal
check-roll1450
checker-roll1461
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > servants collectively > of a family or household > roll or list of
checker-roll1461
check-roll1577
check1603
society > communication > record > list > [noun] > list of names or people
bead-roll1529
scroll1546
checker-roll1571
bead-row1576
panel?1578
list1604
nomenclature1635
lexicon1647
head-roll1819
name-scroll1861
visitors' lista1865
roll-call1867
test-roll1879
line-up1890
1461–82 Lib. Niger Edw. IV (1876) Yeomen of Chambre iv, Taking for there wages, as yomen of Crowne doe in the Checkerrole.
1486 Act 3 Hen. VII c. 13 Any seruaunt admytted to be his seruaunte sworne, and his name put into the cheker-roll of his householde.
1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 12 His maiesties seruauntes in his Chequer-roll.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiii. 2) To crosse out ye misbegotten children of Abraham out of the checker roll of the godly.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 248 The king of ordinarie calleth euery second, third or fourth yere for his Checker roll, and bestoweth his mercedes of his owne meere motion.
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