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.

In Tyrwhitt's edition of Chaucer, however, and in all other copies I have seen, the reading is "A gentil manciple was ther of a temple."

From Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 by Various

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

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

The manciple was to pro- vide all wine and mead, the keeping up the stock of earthenware cups, jugs, basins, and other vessels, together with the lamps and oil.

From The Coming of the Friars by Jessopp, Augustus

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