sigillator

sigillator [LL sigillare+-tor] 1 person in charge of an official seal or (esp.) of the sealing of writs and other documents in a chancery or in the Chancery, sealer (in later quot. also as equivalent of ‘spigurnel’, v. OED s. v.); b (person in charge of sealing or stamping guild-approved merchandise). huic [sc. episcopo] dum regimen commititur ecclesie, baculus, quasi pastori, et annulus, [quasi] apocrisiario, id est secretorum ~ori, traditur Hon. GA 601A (= Gir. PI I 19 p. 110); detulit ‥ dispensator regius reum ~orem, quod breve ‥ ei negasset sine precio reddere. ‥ erat Adam a Gernemue ~or Map NC V 6 f. 69v; 1471 concessimus eidem Johanni officium ~oris infra dominium nostrum de Wakefeld Pat 527 m. 25; 1521 officium spigurnelli, alias dictum officium ~oris sive signatoris in cancellaria Ib. 638 m. 3; hic [sc. in cancellaria] sedent ‥ ~or, cerae minister, contrarotulator hanaperii ‥ Camd. Br. 143; fuerunt hi Bohuni ‥ aliquandiu spigurnelli regis, i. ~ores brevium jure haereditario Camd. Br. 272.  b p1584 gustatores carnis et piscium, scrutatores et ~ores corii, gustatores carnis et piscium ‥ (Guildford) Gild Merch. II 106. 2 person who makes or carves seals, seal-maker. 1292 W. ~or arestatus pro ‥ contrafactione sigilli J. de S. JustIt 414 m. 19d..