Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who lays up treasure in a coffer or chest; one who hoards money.
- noun Formerly, a principal officer of the royal household of England, who had oversight of the other officers of the court.
- noun A treasurer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who keeps treasures in a coffer.
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- noun One who keeps
treasures in acoffer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Evidence suggests, however, that Champernon did not overrule the steward or the "cofferer" (treasurer).
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As Elizabeth's cofferer, Bedingfield despaired that he was unable to "avoyde by enye possible mene, butte that daylye & howerlye the sayde Parye maye have & gyve intelligence" on nefarious "enterprises" both to and from Elizabeth by virtue of his necessary daily contact with his mistress.
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Moreover, it was her governess and cofferer who had helped to arrange for her humanist Protestant education through their connections to Roger Ascham, Anthony Denny, and William Cecil.
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When Tyrwhitt showed Elizabeth this deposition, she immediately seized on this anomaly by Parry and her cofferer of being a "false wretch."
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Elizabeth's cofferer, Thomas Parry, led the way in Champernon-Ashley's absence (at this time, she was imprisoned in the home of Sir Roger Cholmley for suspected complicity in the Wyatt rebellion) .180 Initially, Parry had campaigned to reconstitute the household at Woodstock manor itself but Bedingfield complained to the Privy Council.
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Note 147: He was listed as Mary's cofferer in the October 1533 checkeroll, BL Harley 6807, ff. 7r – 9r.
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William Cholmely, Mary's steward/cofferer after her return from the Welsh Marches, took over these duties for the combined household. 147
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Judging from Champernon's and the cofferer Thomas Parry's later testimony, they divided household authority between them.
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On April 11, 1547, the Privy Council deputed Sir Edward Peckham, cofferer (treasurer) of King Edward's household, to distribute to each princess "the summe of oone cii, to be accompted as parcell of her Graces pencion to her allotted by the testament of our late Souveraine Lord."
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Not surprisingly, this situation caused friction between Elizabeth's cofferer Thomas Parry and Bedingfield.
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