manciple

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Enter the amateur, in this case Insurance Investigator Peter Manciple, who knows Devonshire like the back of his hand: he attended public school there, and was dubbed "Mathematics" Manciple by one professor.

From Time Magazine Archive

They all converge on Manciple, who alone seems to have the clues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bacchus, Bacchus! blessed be thy name,That thus canst turn our earnest into game.Worship and thanks be to thy deity.So on this head ye get no more from me.Tell on thy tale, Manciple, I thee pray.”

From Playful Poems by Morley, Henry

A gentil Manciple was there of the Temple, Of whom achatours mighten take ensemple, For to ben wise in bying of vitaille.

From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.

Thus the "Miller" and the "Reeve" are a noble pair running in parallel lines, though in contrary directions; so are the "Cook" and the "Manciple," and again and more especially the "Friar" and the "Summoner."

From Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir