c1541 in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 124 Tho. Key Registrarie of the University.

1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Registrary, Commentarius, Registrarius, Scriptuarius.

1642 B. Twyne 29 Dec. in Wood's Life (1891) I. 77 I havinge borrowed the proctors' booke of Mr. [John] French the registrary, brought it thither to that meetinge, and restored it unto him again.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 1 The publick Scribe or Registrary of the University of Oxon.

1694 H. Wharton tr. W. Laud Diary in Hist. Troubles (1695) 24 I and my Company dined in the open Air, in a place called Pente-Cragg, where my Registrary had his Country-House.

1707 London Gaz. No. 4294/3 The several Lists of Incumbents..are reduced to An. 1700. by the present Registrary.

1788 J. Beverley Acct. Ceremonies Univ. Cambr. 127 The Vicechancellor takes the Oath of returning Officer (prepared for him by the Registrary) before a Justice of the Peace.

1829 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 103 The Registrary's Office and Record Room.

1853 C. Merivale Fall Rom. Republic vi. 166 The senate, reduced to the mere registrary of its haughty champion's decrees.

1894 Circular Fellow of Trinity College, and Registrary of the University from 1862 to 1891.

1900 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 683 Unless the Fellow hold the office of Professor, Public Orator, Registrary, or Librarian in the University.

1964 Times 19 June 9/2 The Registrary, the Secretary General of the Faculties, and the Treasurer will receive £4,750.

2008 A. D. D. Craik Mr Hopkins' Men i. ii. 23 His main duties were as Registrary of the University of Cambridge, a post that put him at the heart of the running of the university.

1696 W. Nicolson Eng. Hist. Libr. I. v. 111 What is most especially notorious, is his transcribing out of Josseline and Mason, what he pretends to have had immediately from the Archives and Registraries.

1884 E. S. Shuckburgh tr. W. Dillingham Laurence Chaderton 2 He is entered in the registrary as matriculating on February 25th, 1564-5.

2002 Guardian (Nexis) 4 May (Travel section) 8 They put the dead in a mass grave and ripped the pages out of the registrary.

1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 28 June 409/2 The account received from the present officials of the hackney-carriage registrary..[reports that] from fifteen to sixteen hundred ‘strays’ were deposited in the office during the past year.

1859 Solicitors' Jrnl. & Reporter 29 Oct. 969/2 The existence of registraries of deeds for more than a century and a half,..and the fact that 400,000 documents have been accumulated in the one for the West Riding alone, [etc.].

1871 Notes & Queries 22 July 74/2 If careful search were made among the pre-reformation wills at the various registraries, I believe nearly all the church Dedications might be ascertained.

1899 Canada Med. Rec. Jan. 35 Going forth to do some piece of work in the wards or registraries of the hospitals.

1999 D. A. Templeton New Test. as true Fiction iv. 85 Searching through the registraries of Jerusalem, Jericho and Samaria for the birth certificates..is time ill-spent.

2006 L. Brydon in V. Desai & R. B. Potter Doing Devel. Res. iii. 27/2 The results may be seen by, for example, tax authorities, land registraries or other local official bodies.