A medieval court officer responsible for recording fines and penalties on the filace rolls; a clerk of fines.
From filace + -er (agent suffix). Medieval English term for the specific official who maintained these records.
Filacers were the bureaucrats of punishment — they kept meticulous records of every fine, making them unintentional historians who documented crime and punishment in medieval England.
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