a general sense, a hearer, or one who listens or attends to any thing.

Auditor, according to our Law, is an officer of the king, or some other great person, who, by examining yearly the accounts of the under officers, makes up a general book, with the difference between their receipts and charges, and their allowances to allocations.

Auditor of the Receipts, is an officer of the exchequer who files the tellers bills, makes an entry of them, and gives the lord treasurer a certificate of the money received the week before. He also makes debentures to every teller, before they receive any money, and takes their accounts. He keeps the black book of receipts, and the treasurer's key of the treasury, and sees every teller's money locked up in the new treasury.

Auditors of the Revenue, or of the exchequer, officers who take the accounts of those who collect the revenues and taxes raised by parliament, and take the accounts of the sheriffs, escheators, collectors, tenants, and customers, and set them down in a book, and perfect them.

Auditors of the Prest and Imprest, officers of the exchequer, who take and make up the accounts of Ireland, Berwick, the mint, and of any money impressed to any man for the king's service. They received poundage on all accounts passed by them, which amounted to a prodigious sum, especially in time of war. But the office is now abolished, and 7000l. a-year given to the incumbents.

Auditors Collegiate, Conventual, &c. officers formerly appointed in colleges, &c. to examine and pass their accounts.