Obs.; also acatry, accatre, accatry, achatry. [f. ACATER + -Y.] Provisions purchased; also, ‘the room or place allotted to the keeping of all such provisions as the purveyors purchased for the King.’ Halliwell.
a. 1377. Househ. Ord. of Edw. III. (1790), 4. Buttery, Achatry, Chandery, etc.
1522. Visit of Charles V. to Eng., in Rutl. Pap. (1842), 78. Item, placardes to be hadd for the purveors of the pultre, accatre, and other.
1526. Househ. Ord. of Hen. VIII., 142. The serjeant of the acatry … shall see that … as well flesh as fish, be good & of the best.
1551. MS., in Macm. Mag., XLV. 447. The Acatrye, or purchases made of flesh meat, 579l., includes veals, lamb, muttons, hogs of bacon.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., s.v., The officers of the Acatery, are a serjeant, two joint-clerks, and a yeoman of the salt-stores.
