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After the return of the king in 1699 he resigned his offices in the government and succeeded his brother in the auditorship.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various

In 1843 Lockhart received the auditorship of the duchy of Lancaster, a post of some value.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George

Prior's two lines on his hoped-for auditorship; as put into the mouths of his St. John and Harley;       —-Let that be done, which Matt. doth say.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel

Amos Kendall, a New Englander who had lately edited a Jackson paper in Kentucky, and who now found his reward in the fourth auditorship of the Treasury, was another.

From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Ogg, Frederic Austin

Herr Rump was appointed auditor to the German section of the Tientsin-P'ukou Railway, but Mr. Bland tells us that "the auditorship on this railway has proved worse than useless as a preventive of official peculation."

From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Baring, Evelyn