manciple

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...

Surviving 2006

That the above is the true reading ( "the real passage"), and that it is to be applied to _the_ temple, appears to me from what follows, in the description of the manciple.

Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 Various

At the top of the spiral staircase is the “Homme au panier,” a statue 4 feet 6 inches in height, on a pedestal at the topmost step, representing a manciple or serving-man bearing a basket on his right shoulder, out of which spring, like so many stems of wheat, nearly a score of vaulting ribs for the roof that closes in the staircase.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

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.

Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850 Various

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.

Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

The official or servile class includes the manciple, or buyer for a fraternity of templars, otherwise called an achatour, whence Cator, Chater a, the Reeve, an estate steward, so crafty that — "Ther nas baillif, ne herde, nor oother hyne, That he ne knew his sleighte and his covyne" and finally the Cook, or Coke — "To boylle the chicknes and the marybones."

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

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

The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

'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.'

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Prior repent of his courtesy, and ejaculate, --- 'Nay, but fair sir, now I bethink me, my Malkin abideth not the spur --- Better it were that you tarry for the mare of our manciple down at the Grange, which may be had in little more than an hour, and cannot but be tractable, in respect that she draweth much of our winter fire-wood, and eateth no corn.'

Ivanhoe 1892

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

The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868