Cursitors

The Cursitors 'Office was built by Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and adjoined the site of a palace of the Bishop of Chichester; and this adjoined the Domus Conversorum, or House of Converts, wherein the rolls of Chancery were kept, now replaced by the magnificent building of the new Record Office.

Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868

Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, Vulgarly Called

Notes to "Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century." Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994