Obs. Also bowchyer, bowger. [Boucher appears to be a corruption of bowger, and this a deriv. of bowge, BOUGE ‘bag, wallet,’ perh. in sense of ‘purse’; but cf. BOWSER.] A treasurer, cashier, bursar.
c. 1450. Gregory’s Chron., 139. At the same tabylle the bowgerys of the chancery.
1494. Fabyan, VII. 586. At ye same table sat the bowchyers of the Chauncery.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. 29. Pigmalions riches … that pinchepeny boucher.
