| 单词 | lord conservatour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLord Conservatour b. Scottish. An officer appointed to protect the rights and settle the disputes of Scottish merchants in foreign ports or places of trade; a consul. Sometimes as Conservator of the Staple; also Lord Conservatour. Also: an officer similarly charged with the protection of English merchants in foreign countries in the 17th cent. (cf. sense 2d). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > resident abroad > specific representing merchant rights conservator1503 1503 Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1597) §81 That the Conseruatour of this Realme haue jurisdiction to do justice..betuix merchand and merchande in thay partes beȝond sea. 1565 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 332 Nane of thame sall brek bouk,..quhill the tyme that thair gudis be housit, and the schip lost, and avysit with the conservatour how the marcat is. 1638 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 71 Your Conservatour has written to the King, that some munition is coming to us from Campheir. 1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 316 Being a stranger..he..demanded the judgment of the Conservator, appointed to determine the Causes of the English; but was sent back to the Cognizance of that Court, from which he had appeal'd. 1761 Brit. Mag. 2 672 Charles Stewart, Esq; lord conservator of the Scotch privileges at Campvere. 1776 D. Hume Let. 27 June (1932) II. 328 Mr John Hume..alias the late Lord Conservator..had calculated Matters so as to arrive infallibly..in St David's Street on Wednesday Evening. 1845 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 438/2 At Rotterdam, aged 72, Sir Alexander Ferrier, K. H. Lord Conservator of Scottish Privileges, late her Majesty's Consul for South Holland and Zeeland. 1981 J. Wormald Court, Kirk, & Community (1991) iv. 57 The Scots merchant Andrew Halyburton, conservator of the staple at Middelburg, may have come from the Edinburgh family of Benings. < as lemmas |
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