an officer in the common pleas, who engrosses fines acknowledged in that court into a perpetual record (after they have been examined, and passed by other officers), and writes and delivers the indentures thereof to the party. He makes two indentures; one for the buyer, the other for the seller; and a third indented piece containing the effect of the fine, and called the foot of the fine: and delivers it to the custos brevium.—The same officer also, or his deputy, proclaims all fines in court every term, and endorses the proclamations on the backside of the foot; keeping, withal, the writ of covariant, and the writ of fine.