cursitors

The noble Lord talked of his cursitors, but the cursitors were a very ancient corporation; and were their Lordships prepared to say, that the officers of a cor* poration were never to talie for the discharge of their duties more than the lowest rate at which a person could be hired to do those duties?

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Indeed, if the wound be in the spirits, those cursitors betwixt soul and body, to recover their decay or consumption, wine may usefully be applied: but if the wound be in the spirit, in Scripture phrase, all carnal, corporal comforts are utterly in vain.

Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

And it will be remembered that at that time many of the students of our universities were among these cursitors, as we find by an old statute of the xxii of

The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828

In adverting to some of the most useless offices, he mentioned the noble and learned Lord's cursitors, of which body there were 24.

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