[COUNTER- 3 b.] One who takes or makes a counter-appeal: in quot. applied to the eight Lords who in 1397 appealed of treason three of the Lords Appellants of 1387–8.
1874. Stubbs, Const. Hist., III. 17. Of the appellants of 1388, only [Henry IV.] himself and Warwick survived; of the counter-appellants of 1397, Nottingham and Wiltshire were dead.
