Obs. Also 7 -rolle, -roule, conterrol. [a. obs. Fr. contrerolle ‘the copie of a roll (of accounts, etc.), a paralell of the same qualitie and content with th’ originall’ (Cotgr.), corresp. to med.L. contrarotulus: see CONTROL and COUNTER- 8.]
A copy of a roll or document, kept for purposes of checking: cf. CONTROLLER 1.
1613. Sir H. Finch, Law (1636), 244. The Sherifes shall haue Conterrols with the Coroners, as well of their Appeales, as of enquests of Attachments.
1863. H. Cox, Instit., III. vii. 683. The officer … was to reside at the Receipt of the Exchequer, and to have a counter-roll of all things pertaining to the said receipt.
b. fig. A list, catalogue. (Cf. ROLL.)
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. ii. (1632), 451. A Counter-roule of divers and variable accidents.
