institutor

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Facing this table is the seat of Peter of Estivet, the institutor of the process.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

He took a considerable part in the rebuilding of London after the great fire of 1666, and has a claim to be considered the institutor of fire-insurance in England, which he started somewhere about 1680.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

In this respect he was the imitator, probably the unconscious imitator, of Charlemagne, and the precursor of Henry II., the institutor of our Justices in Eyre.

From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin

My very dear brothers: Peter of Estivet, institutor of the process against Joan the Maid, will concisely state our petition.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne

But the fatalest institutor of proud modern anatomical and scientific art, and of all that has polluted the dignity, and darkened the charity, of the greater ages, was Antonio Pollajuolo of Florence.

From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by Ruskin, John