subs. (old).—A magistrate.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew. FORTUNE-TELLERS, c. the Judges of Life and Death, so-called by the Canting Crew.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. FORTUNE-TELLER, or cunning man; a judge who tells every prisoner his fortune, lot, or doom; to go before the FORTUNE-TELLER, lambskin man or conjuror, to be tried at an assize.
1871. P. EGAN, Finish to Tom and Jerry, p. 242. He had been werry cruelly used by the FORTUNE-TELLERS.
