[f. as prec. + -SHIP.] The office of chancellor. (In various senses: see CHANCELLOR.)
1473. Warkw., Chron., 3. The Kyng put oute of the Chaunceler-schepp the Bysshope of Excetre.
1535. Act 27 Hen. VIII., c. 27. In the office of chauncellourship of the augmentacions.
1556. Chron. Gr. Friars (1852), 35. In October the cardnalle was deprived of the chanslercheppe.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1637), 275. During the time of his Chancellourship of England.
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg., 161. No one should be admitted to a Bishops Chancellorship without good knowledge in the Civil and Canon Laws.
1809. G. Rose, Diaries (1860), II. 407. Mr. Percival has decided to offer Mr. Vansittart the Chancellorship of the Exchequer.
1873. Times Summary of Year. Prince Bismarck, who had retained his Chancellorship of the Empire, has [etc.].
