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What is a manciple?

What is a manciple? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person in charge of purchasing and storing food and other provisions in a monastery, college, or court of law.
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The Clerk, the Cook, the Parson and the Manciple are all part of which literary work?
A manciple was in charge of getting provisions for a college or court.
Paying the barber, the cook, the laundress and the manciple amounted to a further six shillings a year.
Nun's Priest, the Franklin, the Canon's Yeoman and the Manciple.
One of Chaucer's pilgrims is a manciple of the Temple, of whom he gives a good character for his skill in purveying.
He did as soon as Alice said that about whining and grizzling being below the dignity of a Manciple.

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