Proctor
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Proctor is a person who takes charge of, or acts for, another.
Proctor of the University of Cambridge, aquatint by John Samuel Agar after Thomas Uwins, from History of the University of Cambridge (1815) by William Combe
1674 engraving of a Proctor in the University of Oxford. From Habitus Academicorum, by George Edwards
Admiralty court
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Admiralty courts, also known as maritime courts, are courts exercising jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries, and offenses.
Proctor
…used to describe someone who supervises an examination (i.e. a supervisor or invigilator). A proctor was a legal practitioner in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts in England. These courts were distinguished from the common law courts and courts of equity because they applied "civil law" derived from Roman law…
Edinburgh's West Register House houses the records of the Scottish Admiralty Court.
Cartoon showing the Duke of Wellington; King George IV and George's brother William holding the Silver Oar of the Admiralty
Silver Oars—Insignia of Office of the Water Baliffs of Colchester
Foundation of the alliance between Lübeck and Hamburg in the part about ship law (Van schiprechte) in the Hamburg city right from 1497