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A '''manciple''' (măn'sə-pəl) 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 [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] colleges, at the [[Charterhouse]] in the City of London, and in the name of Manciple Street in the borough of [[Southwark]], [[London]] SE1.
The term comes from [[Middle English]] "maunciple", taken from [[Old French]], which in turn comes from the [[Latin language|Latin]] "''mancipium''", "''manceps''", a purchaser of stores.
==See also==
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