manciple

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A doctor of physic, a cook, a poor parson, a ploughman, a reeve, or estate agent, a manciple, and two disgraceful characters—a summoner and a pardoner—make up the total of the company.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.

"And yet this manciple made them fools, I wot."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

At this moment the door opened, and in came the manciple with the dinner paper, which Mr. Vincent had formally to run his eye over.

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by Newman, John Henry

So that the plowmans tale must be sett in some other place before the manciple and persons tale, and not as yt ys in the last editione.

From Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by Kingsley, G. H. (George Henry)

I had, indeed, took the liberty of telling the manciple that you was not a gentleman to give more trouble than you could 'elp.

From The Ship of Stars by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir