What is "bursars"

Usage examples of "bursars".

He had scarcely ever been known to rally the poor scholars of Montaigu for the little hoods, after which they were nicknamed (Capettes), or the bursars of the Collège de Dormans for their shaven crowns and their tricoloured frock of grey, blue, and purple cloth—azurini coloris et bruni, as saith the charter of the Cardinal des Quatres-Couronnes.

In each of these also they have one or more treasurers, whom they call bursarios or bursars, beside other officers whose charge is to see unto the welfare and maintenance of these houses.