spigurnel

• IPA^(key): /spɪˈɡɜː(ɹ)nəl/

spigurnel (plural spigurnels)

1. (UK, law, obsolete) The sealer of writs in chancery.
   • 1904, John Greene Henderson, Chancery Practice, page 103:

     On the 4th of October, being Sunday, the Bishop of Ely, chancellor, producing the new seal, declares the king's pleasure, that it should be from thenceforth used; the Monday after the old seal is broke, præcipiente rege and the pieces delivered to the Spigurnel.

   • 1926, Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, Historical Notes on the Use of the Great Seal of England

     Several Spigurnels of the thirteenth century are, moreover, described indifferently as Serjeants of the King's Chapel and Serjeants of his Chancery

   • 1980, David Michael Smith, ‎Nicholas Vincent, ‎B. R. Kemp, English Episcopal Acta: Winchester, 1205-1238, page xlvii:

     However there is one item of expenditure which may have a direct link to the chancery; the purchase of wax. In 1224-5, for example, we find the bishop's bailiffs at Southwark buying ten pounds of wax 'for the spigurnel by the bishop's order'.

   • 1999, Medieval Prosopography - Volume 20, page 203:

     Henry IV provided royal confirmations to several minor Chancery officials , including the spigurnel of Chancery, along with letters patent confirming the office of “chaufeire” within Chancery.

• Spickernell (surname)

• spigurnel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• repulsing

• spigernell, sprigonell, spygernel, spykernell, spygornoll, spygurnell

From Anglo-Norman spigurnel, spigurnelle, and Anglo-Latin spigurnella,[1] further etymology unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspiɡurnɛl/

spigurnel (uncountable)

1. An unknown broomlike flowering plant with medicinal uses (possibly spignel).

• >? English: spignel