[CO- 3 b.] A joint assessor.
1644. C. Jessop, Angel of Ephesus, 38. What is the Presbyterie … but a sacred Assembly, the Counsellours and Coassessours of the Bishop.
1649. Selden, Laws Eng., I. xxxviii. (1739), 58. Co-assessors with the Bishop and Sheriff.
1747. Carte, Hist. Eng., I. 370. Out of the coassessors in these county and hundred courts, were the twelve jurors chosen by the rest.
1865. Neale, Hymns Paradise, 42. The Apostolic Cohort, as royal Co-assessors are nearest to My Throne.
So Co-assession.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Rem. Wks. (1660), 346. The co-assession of a Lay-presbytery.
