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Brewer's: Crowner
Coroner —i.e. an officer of the Crown.
“The crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.” —Shakespeare: Hamlet, v. 1.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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