Definition of "chancellour" [chancellour]

• Archaic form of chancellor. (noun)

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• "Vpon these termes and assaults, the treason of the chancellour"
• "¶ Some write, that now at this present, the king should ordeine or rather confirme the bishop of Elie his chancellour to be lord chéefe iustice ouer all England, and the bishop of Durham to be lord iustice from Trent northwards."
• "The bishop of Elie lord chancellour, being sent about this businesse towards Rome, departed this life by the way at Poictiers, in Januarie."