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Name Term description
NameCrippell Term description

One with a physical disability

NameCripple Term description

One with a physical disability

NameCrofter Term description

Person occupying a smallholding. One who holds and works a croft, a small subsistence farm

NameCultellar Term description

Cutlery maker

NameCunzeour Term description

Coiner

NameCupper Term description

Cask or barrel maker

NameCurate Term description

Partly-ordained clergyman in pre-Reformation or Episcopal church

NameCurrier Term description

A person who curries or dresses tanned leather, a tanner of hides

NameCurriour Term description

One who transports goods

NameCustomer Term description

Customs officer

NameCustom-house officer Term description

One working in a custom-house collecting revenue on goods

NameCustumer Term description

Customs officer

NameCutlar/cutler Term description

Cutlery maker

NameCod. Term description

Codicil

NameC of M Term description

Contract of marriage

NameC A Term description

Chartered accountant

NameCOMM/COMMTE Term description

Committee

NameCOY/CO Term description

Company

NameCURS Term description

Curators

NameCaution, cautioner Term description

Security; bail; one who stands surety for another.

NameCess Term description

Land tax

NameCessioner Term description

A person to whom a cession of property is made.

NameCessio bonorum Term description

Surrender of debtor's goods in favour of his creditors.

NameCircuit court Term description

An itinerant court which travels round the country trying criminal cases (in Scotland, this applies to the High Court of Justiciary).

NameChalder Term description

A measure, which varied from place to place and depending on what was being measured. When applied to grain, it was roughly 16 bolls, the boll being around 6 imperial bushels. See our guide on <a href="/guides/weights-and-measures">weights and measures</a>.