1) College purveyor 2) Steward for a monastery
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A manciple əl is a person in charge of the purchase and storage of food at an institution such as a college, monastery, or court of law. Manciples were sometimes also in charge of catering more generally, including food preparation. The title still survives in some Oxford and Cambridge colleges, at the Charterhouse in the City of London, in the P...
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steward of a college or monastery; purveyor
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• (n.) A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.
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Man'ci·ple noun [ From Old French
mancipe slave, servant (with
l inserted, as in
participle ), from Latin
mancipium . See
Mancipate .] A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.
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