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Quotation dates: 1641
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Subcommissar, n. [Commissar(e n. 6.] A deputy commissary or commissioner, involved in the victualling of an army. — 1641 Misc. Maitl. C. II 418.
His accompt of proveant intromettit with be him and utheris subcommissaris (as he affirmes), since the armye came in Engleand
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