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What is a protonotary?

What is a protonotary? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Alternative spelling of prothonotary
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By the time of King Malcolm II, the great protonotary was extinct and the great justiciar was replaced by the lord justice general.
We are not installed ceremoniously as protonotary apostolics or monsignors.
The protonotary did not answer, but walked sulkily into the house.
The bull was signed by Pope John Paul II and countersigned by Monsignor Angelo Lanzoni, Protonotary Apostolic.
When his main charge, Marco Corner, was given a cardinalcy in 1500, Bartolomeo simply became his secretary instead of his tutor and was in due course rewarded for his services by the appointment of apostolic protonotary.
A key figure here was the unscrupulous careerist Henri Costerius, a protonotary apostolic eager for a bishopric, who as a Borghese client, had powerful friends in Rome.

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