proveditors

_Magister Coquinæ_, whose office it was to purvey; and there again the chief cooks are proveditors; different usages might prevail at different times and places.

The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

The proveditors ufed all their endeavours to engage the French heartily in the caufe; but perceiving they were am ufed with frivolous excufes, they began to fufpect that Lau - trec's conduct: was the effect of fome fecret orders from court.

The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1782