For all the corruption at the top, someone was commanding each manciple in the army, laying out aqueducts with a few simple tools, making sure that the grain ships left Egypt on time, delivering the mail. From Wordnik.com. [Surviving] Reference
The question, therefore, is involved in the same doubt which I at first stated; for the subsequent lines quoted by P.H.F. prove nothing more than that the person described was a manciple in some place of legal resort, which was not disputed. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850] Reference
In the same year, John Hordene, a scholar of Peckwater Inn, is fined six shillings and eightpence for breaking the head of Thomas Walker, manciple of Pauline Hall, and Thomas Walker is fined the like sum for drawing his sword on Hordene and for gambling. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Ship of Stars] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference
The astonished manciple, who had never been sent on such a commission in his whole career before, hastened out of the room, to task his wits how best to fulfil it. From Wordnik.com. [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference
There is nothing very imposing in the office of a manciple; and accordingly Mr. Beddoes has left the peculiar character of his heroine's status in society undefined. From Wordnik.com. [Review] Reference
Council of State, was quondam manciple of Emmanuel, Cambridge, and acted as spy-master and manager of the 'committee hackneys,' which hunted down and betrayed Royalists. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I] Reference
'Some societies would have been glad to shut themselves up by themselves, and enjoy the good things of the cook and manciple, without the intrusion of commoners who come for education.'. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
And yet this manciple sette hir aller cappe!. From Wordnik.com. [The Canterbury Tales] Reference
"A manciple there was of the Temple, Of which all catours might take ensemple For to be wise in buying of vitaile; For whether he pay'd or took by taile, Algate he wayted so in his ashate, That he was aye before in good estate. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
"A gentil manciple was there of a temple.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850] Reference
"And yet this manciple made them fools, I wot.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
Of masters had he more than thrice ten, That were of law expert and curious, Of which there was a dozen in that house, Worthy to been stewards of rent and land Of any lord that is in England; To maken him live by his proper good In honour debtless, but if he were wood; Or live as scarcely as him list desire, And able to helpen all a shire, In any case that might have fallen or hap, And yet the manciple set all her capp. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
We lived just off long lane, manciple street ... one of the felons mum had a dairy in kipling/porlock street .... they were welsh I think .... where did you say you lived?. From Wordnik.com. [London SE1 community website] Reference
Many of them are very scantily clothed, and all have their attention rivetted on the chest, each with curious eye watching for his pledge, his book or his cup, brought from some country village, perhaps an old treasure of his family, and now pledged in his extremity, for last term he could not pay the principal of his hall the rent of his miserable garret, nor the manciple for his battels, but now he is in funds again, and pulls from his leathern money-pouch at his girdle the coin which is to repossess him of his property. ". From Wordnik.com. [Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages] Reference
Take it, then, if you will, as I do, merely for a change; at any rate, your manciple has furnished this buttery of yours with ample choice of viands; and omnivoracious as man may be -- gormandizing, with gusto, fat moths in Australia, cockchafers at Florence, frogs in France, and snails in Switzerland, equally as all less objectionable meats, drinks, fruits, roots, composites, and simples -- still, in reason, no one can be expected or expect himself to like every thing: have charity, for what suits not one man's taste may please the palate of another; so hear me complacently turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
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