Someone with a key to the coffers. A treasurer. An officer in the royal household in England, under the controller.
"The house sat till three o'clock, and then up: and I home with Sir
Stephen Fox to his house to dinner, and the Cofferer with us. There I find Sir
S. Fox's lady, a fine woman, and seven of the prettiest children of theirs that
ever I knew almost. A very genteel dinner, and in great state and fashion, and
excellent discourse; and nothing like an old experienced man and a courtier,
and such is the Cofferer Ashburnham."
Samuel Pepys, Diary (December
14, 1666).
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