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1652 G. T. & T. P. Practick Part of Law 2 The Clark of the Supersedeas, who makes Writs to supersede the Outlawing of Persons.

1710 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 23) i. ii. 129 There are Five Clerks or Officers more... 5. Clerk of the Supersedeas, which is held by Patent. But before King James the First's time the Writs of Supersedeas were made by the Exigenter.

1761 London & Environs Described II. 165 There are besides a clerk of the King's silver;..a clerk of the supersedeas;..four criers and a porter.

1837 W. Tidd New Pract. Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, & Exchequer of Pleas Add. 638 In the court of Common Pleas, they are the offices of..exigenter, and clerk of the supersedeas; and clerk of the outlawries.

1947 M. Hastings Court of Common Pleas in 15th Cent. Eng. vii. 102 Later in the reign,..the justices resisted the creation by letters patent of a new office of Clerk of the Supersedeas on the ground that such a grant would disseise of their ‘free tenement during their life-time’ the prothonotaries and exigenters of the court.

1972 J. S. Cockburn Hist. Eng. Assizes, 1558–1714 82 Many, like Babbington and Jonas Pinsent, a Western Circuit associate and a clerk of the supersedeas in the Common Pleas, probably held clerical office in other courts.