proctorshipn.

1535 in F. W. Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 178 To Thos [my son] I leve my parte in the bargyn for the proctorsheype of the Auterlaege [i.e. altarage] of Upton.

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes vii. f. 246 If the names be artificiall, not naturall, as to vse proctorship, for curatorship.

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 620 He..was forced..to undertake there the Proctorship and Stewardship for the King.

1694 J. Strype Memorials T. Cranmer i. xxvi. 114 And when he was out of his Proctorship, the University allowed him to defend himself from the Towns-men at the University Charge, if he should be set upon by them.

1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 21 Apr. (1885) I. 230 [He] was a little after his Proctership preferr'd.

1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 530 The procuracy or proctorship of Lorsch.

1837 Times 7 Apr. 5/5 After..being admitted by the Vice-Chancellor with the accustomed ceremonies, to the office of the Proctorship, the new Proctor nominated the following gentlemen to be the Pro-Proctors for the ensuing year.

1886 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 615 The proctorship for science, justly assumed for matters within his province as a student, is rather hastily extended to matters which he himself declares to be beyond it.

1939 Eng. Hist. Rev. 54 353 The rotating duties of the academic proctorship had come round to All Souls' for the first time since 1869.

1988 M. R. O'Connell John Ireland & Amer. Catholic Church vi. 126 It is doubtful that he intended to remain in Rome very long.., doubtful, that is, that he ever expected his proctorship to give him a meaningful role in the work of the council.

2003 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 19 Dec. 10 David Lean's version is easily the best, with Alec Guinness as the unctuous, charming Fagin, whose proctorship makes little criminals of London orphans.