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单词 servitor of the crown
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servitor of the Crown
4. A person, esp. a soldier, who has seen active service in war; (also occasionally) a person who has held a civil office in time of war. In later use only with reference to a group of individuals who were assigned land in Ulster in recognition of having served in a military or civil capacity during the Nine Years' War of 1593–1603 (now more fully as servitor of the Crown). Now historical.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > holder of crown lands in Ireland
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?1570 tr. P. Melanchthon in Whether Mortall Sinne to transgresse Ciuil Lawes 20 This preseruation asketh the helpe both of souldiers and other seruitours, not onely in warre, but also in peace.
1587 T. Saunders True Discr. Voiage Tripolie sig. Bijv A Spaniard called Sebastian, which had beene an old seruitor in Flanders.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 422 The..most venterous Mariners and servitours at sea.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 127 Our Norman Conqueror..gaue away to his seruitors, the Lands and possessions of such, as did oppose his first inuasion.
1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 20 A valiant servitour in sundry wars beyond sea.
1662 R. S. Coll. Murthers & Massacres committed on Irish in Irel. 12 Mr. Thomas Talbot of Crawlstowne..a known servitor to the Crown,..having been Lieutenant of horse, to the Lord of Hoaths troop in the Battail of Kinsale, in Queen Eliz. Raigne.
1776 G. E. Howard Treat. Exchequer & Revenue Ireland I. iv. 32 The lands..were to be so assigned either to the old chieftains, or inhabitants, or servitors of the Crown, (who were the great officers of state, or captains and officers in the army) or else to English and Scotch undertakers.
1787 Universal Mag. July 37/1 The servitors of war, whose functions are the same with those of the knights.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xviii. 740 Sir Arthur Chichester..advised that the lands should be assigned,..partly to servitors of the crown, as they were called.
1921 S. MacManus Story Irish Race xlviii. 405 English and Scotch Undertakers (as they were called), and Servitors of the Crown, scrambled for the fertile lands which were given to them in parcels of one thousand, one thousand five hundred, and two thousand acres.
2002 M. Nic Craith Plural Identities—Singular Narr. ii. 35 Further grants [of land] were made to English army officers serving in Ireland, called ‘servitors’, and to compliant Irish chiefs.
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