Victualler

• “Treasurer of the Navy where they have overthrown him the last Wednesday, in the great dispute touching his having the payment of the Victualler, which is now settled by Council that he is not to have it and, indeed, they have been most just, as well as most severe and bold, in the doing this against a man of his quality; but I perceive he do really make no difference between any man.”

  Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 56: August 1667

• “And then to his chamber, where he read to me the heads of the late great dispute between him and the rest of the Commissioners of the Treasury, and our new Treasurer of the Navy where they have overthrown him the last Wednesday, in the great dispute touching his having the payment of the Victualler, which is now settled by Council that he is not to have it and, indeed, they have been most just, as well as most severe and bold, in the doing this against a man of his quality; but I perceive he do really make no difference between any man.”

  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1667

• “City lost thirteen butchers, including old Therngild, who started in Bluetown with my old Dad, then made it up to Emperor's Victualler.”

  Archive 2006-09-03

• “Cotgrave, Dictionarie, says that a rostisseur is “a roster of meat; also a Cooke that sells, or dresses, none but rost-meat”; a taverne “is also (in some few places no better than) a victualling house”; and a tavernier is “a Vintner, Tauerne-keeper, Wine-drawer; also in some places a Victualler, of whom (as in our Tauernes of London) one may haue meat, and drink for his money.””

  Simon & Schuster: Savoring The Past

• “Benefit to a Victualler that Brews to Sell again, and can't Vent his small”

  The London and Country Brewer

• “This Weed is so natural to some Ground that the Farmer despairs of ever extirpating it, and is to be avoided as much as possible, because it very much hurts the Drink that is made from Malt mixed with it, by its nauseous Scent and Taste, as may be perceived by the Ointment made with it that bears its Name: I knew a Victualler that bought a parcel of”

  The London and Country Brewer

• “These artificial Qualities, and I think I may say unnatural, has been so prevalent with the Vulgar, who were his chief Customers, that I have known this Victualler have more Trade for such Drink than his Neighours, who had much more wholsome at the same time; for the _Daucus_ Seed tho 'it is a”

  The London and Country Brewer

• “_A Method practiced by a Victualler for Brewing of Ale or_ October _Beer from_ Nottingham.”

  The London and Country Brewer

• “She married Mr. Crisp, as related in the narrative; but he, having failed in business, went to India, when she remained with her father, then Agent Victualler, at Chatham, during which she wrote and published these little volumes.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850

• “Soon after his expulsion from Oxford, he was appointed Victualler of the Squadron lying off Kinsale, and was authorized to reside at, and manage, his father's”

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