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noun

Remembrancer n.

One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder. "Premature consiolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow." "Ye that are the lord's remembrancers."

A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time. "The remembrancer of the lord treasurer in the exchequer."

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... Robin's Almanack,' and the like; also several pretended religious books, one entitled, 'Come out of Her, my People, lest Ye be Partakers of her Plagues'; another called 'Fair Warning'; another, 'Britain's Remembrancer'; and many such, all or most part of which foretold, directly or covertly, the ruin of the city; nay, some were so enthusiastically bold as to run about the streets with their oral predictions, pretending they were sent to preach to the city; and one in particular, who like Jonah to Nineveh, cried ...

— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 • Various