Definition of "mittimus"

Away George, away, raise the watch at Ludgate, and bring a Mittimus from the Iustice for this desperate villaine.

1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, Act III, signature F2, verso

But she pertinaciously refused to make any response. So that he was about to make her mittimus to Bridewell when I departed.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter X, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], book IV

Next, sometimes the same clerk, but often a second clerk, who may not have been in the courtroom, types up the mittimus, the formal court order that directs corrections offers[sic] to commit someone to prison, and something could get lost in translation there.

2013 March 31, Mark Morgenstein, “Suspect in prisons chief's death may have been freed 4 years early”, in CNN‎