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cofferer Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈkɒfərə(r)|
[a. OF. coffrier, f. coffre coffer: see -er.]
1. A treasurer. Obs. exc. Hist.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 319 Sir Rauf þe Coffrers þat tyme was Tresorere. Ibid. 320 Þe Cofrere [orig. Fr. le Cofrere]. 1580North Plutarch 755 (R.) He commanded..his cofferer that kept his money, to give a friend of his five and twenty myryades. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Rom. xvi. 23 Erastus the cofferer of the citie saluteth you. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 344 In that account made by H. Leicester, Cofferer to Thomas Earle of Lancaster vnder Edward the second. 1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 550 Ye fortune's cofferers! Ye pow'rs of wealth! 1863Sala Capt. Dang. III. iii. 114 The Bank of Amsterdam, then the most famous Corporation of Cofferers..in Europe.
b. An officer of the royal household of England, next under the controller; he had the oversight of the other officers. Hist.
1538Leland Itin. IV. 60 One notable Tombe..wherein William Cope, Coferer to K. H. 7. is buried. 1570Act 13 Eliz. c. 4 §1 Any..Cofferer of the Houshold to the Queen's Majesty. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. ii. xii. (1743) 101 The cofferer..is to pay the wages of the king's servants above and below stairs. 1780Burke Corr. (1844) II. 326 The king's household..has..three treasurers;—the treasurer of the chamber, the treasurer of the household, and..the cofferer of the household. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. VI. 18 Sir Edmund Peckham, Cofferer of the household, was found to have gone off with the treasure.
†2. One who makes coffers. Obs.
1401Pol. Poems (1859) II. 109 Girdelers, coferers, ne corvysers, ne no manere of artificeris. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (1843) 10 Coferers, carde makers, and caruers. |