"Barrator" Quotes from Famous Books
... keep our accounts too himself; will appoint an officer of his own to see our Cellerarius keep them. Murmurs thereupon among us: Was the like ever heard? Our Cellerarius a cipher; the very Townsfolk know it: subsannatio et derisio sumus, we have become a laughingstock to mankind. The Norfolk barrator and paltener! ... — Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle |