Fac-simile of an Engraving in the Royal Statutes of the Provostship of Merchants, 1528.
Assembly of the Provostship of the Merchants of Paris.
This provost was no other than the learned Estienne Boileau, out of respect to whom the provostship was declared a charge de magistrature.
Patrick Lord Ruthven held the Provostshipof Perth for many successive years: see note 787.
The occurrence of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee during Bute's provostship gave occasion for his further munificence; and in commemoration of the event he placed in the council-chambers a series of heraldic stained-glass windows.
Sidenote: 1896, Elected Provost of Rothesay] Bute had several years before this been solicited to allow himself to be nominated to the provostship of the Royal Burgh of Rothesay.
Commencing his career as a merchant in Glasgow, he was in 1796 elevated to the Lord Provostship of the city.
Declining the provostshipoffered him by the Town Council, he retired a few years since to the village of Helensburgh, where he continues to reside.
The peculiar thing is that the Provostship became hereditary, subject only to this fixed charge, exactly like a lay rectory charged with a payment to the Vicar.
The story of Hildebert, John, and the Provostship is given both in the Historiola and by the Canon of Wells.
He adds, "The Subchauntership togither with the Provostship an.
His cousin also obtained for him from the pope, without his knowledge, the provostship of the church of Geneva, then vacant: but the young clergyman held out a long time before he would accept of it.
It was a squad of the king's police, which was making the rounds, by order of Messire Robert d'Estouteville, guard of the provostship of Paris.
Now, upon how many heads had the presidency, the chancellorship, the mastership passed since Robert d'Estouteville had held the provostship of Paris.
Below sat the clerk of the court, scribbling; opposite was the populace; and in front of the door, and in front of the table were many sergeants of the provostship in sleeveless jackets of violet camlet, with white crosses.
The sale of the provostship of Paris was abolished and a man of integrity, Étienne Boileau, appointed with adequate emoluments.
The Maison aux Piliers reverted to the crown, the provostship of the merchants, and all the privileges of the Parisians, were suppressed, and the hateful taxes reimposed.
It was not till the time of Saint Louis that, with the appointment of Etienne Boileau, the provostship of Paris became a prevote en garde, i.
The jurisdiction was that of the provostship (prevote) and viscountship of Paris, which was certainly of feudal origin, probably going back to the counts of Paris.
Although he pretended unfitness, he evidently liked the idea; and in a letter to Legge, while recommending an early application for the tutor, he expresses himself as willing to take the Provostship if the tutor cannot get it.
The sale or the provostship of Paris was abolished and a man of integrity, Etienne Boileau, appointed with adequate emoluments.
The provostship of the merchants, and all the privileges of the Parisians, were suppressed, and the hateful taxes reimposed.
During Hutchinson's Provostship His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, Lord Buckinghamshire, went in state to the University, and was received at the entrance of the Old Hall by the Provost and Fellows.
The Provostship was worth L2,100 a year, besides a splendid residence.
Besides the Alnagership Hutchinson was obliged also to resign the Prime Serjeancy, which was given to Dennis; but even in regard of emolument the Provostship was well worth these two sacrifices, the united income of which was only L1,300.
The most important and most historic of all these appointments was the Provostship, and it is in connection with the Provostship that we know most about him.
Blacquiere would have given him the Provostship if he could have paid a higher price than Hutchinson; and "he would have sold it to a chimney-sweeper if he had been the highest bidder.
His acceptance of the Provostship of Trinity College was an unwise step.
Duigenan says that whilst the bargain was in agitation Blacquiere represented the Provostshipas much more valuable than it was.
In the celebrated canvass for the Provostship of Oriel, where the decision of Newman and Pusey turned the scale, and gave it to Hawkins rather than Keble, it is evident that Keble was not greatly disappointed; he acquiesced too easily.
At his return from his first crusade, Louis recognized the necessity for applying a remedy to this evil; the provostship ceased to be a purchasable office; and he made it separate from the receivership of the royal domain.
