Burse

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.

(2):

(n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.

(3):

(n.) A kind of bazaar.

(4):

(n.) A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.

(5):

(n.) An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

was anciently a purse to hold that which was valuable; retained even now among the official insignia of the lord high chancellor of England.