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What is a verderer?

What is a verderer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Britain) An official in charge of a royal forest; in modern times, still extant in the New Forest and the Forest of Dean.
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Jacob Armitage served King Charles, who employed him as a verderer in the forest, and paid him his wages.
Here he lived much of the rest of his life in semi-seclusion, though he was at times a member of parliament, a magistrate, and verderer of the New Forest.
The verderer was a judicial officer chosen in full county by the freeholders in the same manner as the coroner.
Windybank, as a verderer, should have remembered this, but weightier matters had driven it from his mind.
When a vacancy occurs the election of a new Verderer is called by the Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
Helen hitches a ride to Ashley Walk with New Forest Verderer Anthony Pasmore.

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