An officer of the English crown having the general management of the mines, pits, and quarries in the Forest of Dean and Hundred of St. Brlavel’s, subject, in some respects, to the control of the com-mlssioners of woods and forests. Ile grants gales to free miners in their proper order, accepts surrenders of gales, and keeps the registers required by the acts. There is a deputy-gaveller, who appears to exercise most of the gaveller’s functions. Sweet
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
