Coroner—i.e. an officer of the Crown.
“The crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.”—Shakespeare: Hamlet, v. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.