[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The office of treasurer.
1483. in Lett. Rich. III. & Hen. VII. (Rolls), I. 15. Thoffice of tresorership of Calais.
1529. Act 21 Hen. VIII., c. 13 § 31. Noo Deanery, Archdeaconry, Chauncellershippe, Tresourershippe, Chauntershippe, or Prebende in any Cathedrall or Collegyall Churche.
a. 1635. Naunton, Fragm. Reg. (Arb.), 55. Then did the Queen … give him her assistance, and advanced him to the Treasurership.
1709. Strype, Ann. Ref., I. xlv. 456. Being preferred … to a prebend of Winchester, and the treasurership of Sarum.
1803. Cobbett’s Weekly Pol. Reg., 3 Sept., 3/1. After certain adventures of some of the last named right hon. gentleman’s family in Jamaica, it seems rather extraordinary that the treasureship of the navy should be just the situation pitched upon for him.
1886. Doble, in Hearne’s Collect. (O.H.S.), II. 456. He held the Treasurership of the Navy.
