institutor
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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 Eug?ne Sue
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 Goldwin Smith
To this old servitor he communicated his purpose, and besought him to accompany his former master to this frightfully secluded place, which St. Bruno, institutor of the Carthusian Monks, had founded.
From Claimants to Royalty by John M. Ingram
Behind them and in his monk's frock comes the inquisitor John Lemaitre, together with Peter of Estivet, the official institutor of the process, William Erard and two registrars, carrying parchments and writing portfolios.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
