Tenant-farmers' wives are often asked to act as Notaries in such cases by cottage women on the receipt of letters from their children.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The criminals being taken to Ponte Milvio, they went through a first examination at the inn there at the hands of the Notaries and judges sent thither for the purpose, and the chief points of a confession were obtained from them.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
A little table, also heaped with books, with seats for the Notaries, stood in the centre of the nave, and not far from it were a number of little wooden stools which the prisoners were to occupy.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson