A legal advocate. Originally French, for someone one "turns to."
"Thence to Sir G. Carteret at his lodgings, who I perceive is mightily displeased with this new Treasury; and he hath reason, for it will eclipse him. He says, and I believe, that a great many persons at Court are angry at the rise of this Duncomb. He was a kind of an attorney: but for all this I believe this man will be a great man, in spite of all. Late to supper, and with great quiet to bed; finding by the balance of my account that I am creditor 6,900 pounds, for which the Lord of Heaven be praised!"
Samuel Pepys, Diary (May 31, 1667).
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