单词 | great chamberlain |
释义 | > as lemmasGreat Chamberlain (of Scotland) a. One of the chief officers of the kingdom of Scotland, responsible for collecting the revenues of the Crown and for judging all crimes committed within the burghs. More fully Great Chamberlain (of Scotland). Cf. chamberlain ayre n. at Compounds. Now historical.The office was resigned to the Crown by the Duke of Richmond and Lennox in 1703. ΚΠ 1389 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 449 Robert, Erle of Fyf & of Menteth, Wardane & Chambirlayn of Scotland. 1424 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §42 In euerie Burgh..the Chalmerlain sall inquire in his aire ȝeirlie, gif the Aldermen and Baillies, hes keiped the act. 1458 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 130 Than the chamerlain chargit that gud wyf gan ham and manwr that arschap qwyl scho lefys. 1524 Acts Parl. Scotl. II. 290/1 And [parliament] ordanis the chalmerlane..to put the said act to executioun. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) xiii. xiii. f. 529, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Chamerlane Sua was..made..Dauid Lyndesay of Glenesk grete chammerlane. 1677 R. Thoroton Antiq. Notts. 442 King Edward the second..sent to Robert Clifford his Warden, William de Bevercote his Chancellour, and Mr. Iohn de Weston his Chamberlain of Scotland, certain Petitions exhibited by divers men of that Country to him in Parliament at Westminster. 1711 G. Mackenzie Lives Writers Sc. Nation II. 534 The Lord Hume obtain'd the Place of Great Chamberlain of Scotland. 1769 D. Dalrymple Exam. Arguments for High Antiq. Regiam Majestatem iii. 46 In the reign of Robert I. the fee of the Chamberlain was L. 166. 1862 E. W. Robertson Scotl. under Early Kings II. xvii. 128 The land..was crown property,..under the general superintendence, as in England, of the royal Vice-comes or sheriff, the chamberlain being the official who was supreme over the actual treasury. 1913 Eng. Hist. Rev. 28 424 In 1402 the chamberlain of Scotland gave an award in favour of Dundee in a dispute with Perth. 1993 N. H. Reid in A. Grant & K. J. Stringer Medieval Scotl. x. 231 One would expect Balliol to have appointed a chamberlain soon after he had been re-established on the throne. < as lemmas |
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