provostry

You are provost-marshal, and have the men of your provostry; you will take them.

V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X 1917

“To Adam Tenon, assistant keeper of the seals of the provostry of Paris, for the silver, workmanship, and engraving of the said seals which have had to be renewed, inasmuch as the former ones, being old and worn out, could no longer be used, twelve livres parisis.

V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X 1917

The effort was powerful, strenuous, desperate, and the cords and straps were strained to their utmost tension; but the seasoned bonds of the provostry held.

IV. A Tear for a Drop of Water. Book VI 1917

And when he was eighteen years of age he did do baptize himself, and promised that he should renounce the dignity to be judge of the knights, and also the world, if his time of his provostry were accomplished.

The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

Which judge said to Hermes the provost: I marvel of thee that art so wise a man, that thou wilt leave the great worldly honours that thou hast, and the great riches that thou receivest of thy provostry, and wilt thou leave all these things for dreaming of another life.

The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

Then Eugenia converted to the faith her father, mother, brethren, and all the meiny, and therefore left the father the provostry, and was ordained bishop of the christian people.

The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

Which Philip had taken of the senate the provostry of

The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

Salvestro de 'Medici the revenue of the shops upon the Old Bridge; for himself he took the provostry of Empoli, and conferred benefits upon many other citizens, friends of the plebeians; not so much for the purpose of rewarding their labors, as that they might serve to screen him from envy.

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

As they went, they were discovered and taken with the dead body by the officers of the provostry, who chanced to be abroad at that hour about some other matter.

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

He gave to Salvestro de’ Medici the revenue of the shops upon the Old Bridge; for himself he took the provostry of Empoli, and conferred benefits upon many other citizens, friends of the plebeians; not so much for the purpose of rewarding their labors, as that they might serve to screen him from envy.

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