procurer

The common report hath gone, that earle Edrike was the procurer of this villanous act, and that (as some write) his sonne did it.

And what credit can the poor clerk of a procurer have, pray?

One of these, The Prisse Papyrus, so named from its procurer, is held to be the oldest papyrus in existence.

In their letter to the procurer they literally wrote: It is self-understood that we cannot pay anything in advance.