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... ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Robert S. Rait (N/A)
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." ❋ 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. ❋ 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.' ❋ 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.' ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Augustus Jessopp (1868)
The manciple and the cook of the company seem to indicate that living among the well-to-do classes was a very generous and a very serious part of life, on which a high estimate was placed, since food in any variety, though plentiful at times, was not always to be had, and therefore precarious. ❋ John Lord (1852)
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. ❋ John Henry Newman (1845)
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. ❋ John Henry Newman (1845)
This money is returned when the party takes his degree or name off the books; and no man can do either of these without receipts in full from the butler, manciple, and cook of their respective colleges. ❋ Robert Cruikshank (1828)
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. ❋ Unknown (1823)
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. ❋ Aphra Behn (1664)
"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. ❋ John Cordy Jeaffreson (1866)
