in its primary signification, means an officer who has the command or care of horses; but it is now applied to officers who have very different employments, as earl-marshal, knight-marshal, marshal of the king's house, &c.

MARSHAL of the King's-bench, an officer who has the custody of the King's-bench prison in Southwark. This officer is obliged to give his attendance, and to take into his custody all persons committed by that court.

MARSHAL of the Exchequer, an officer to whom that court commits the king's debtors.

MARSHAL of the King's Hall, an officer who has the care of placing the household servants and strangers at table, according to their quality.

MARSHAL or Marechal of France, an officer of the greatest dignity in the French armies. When two or more marshals are in the army, the eldest commands.

(Thomas), a very learned English divine in the 17th century, was educated at Oxford. This city being garrisoned upon the breaking out of the civil war, he bore arms for the king. Afterward he had several successive preferments in the church; and died at Lincoln-college, of which he was rector. By his will he left all his books and MSS. to the university of Oxford, and money to Lincoln-college for the maintenance of three scholars. He was a noted critic, especially in the Gothic and English-Saxon tongues; and eminent for his piety and other valuable qualities. He wrote, 1. Observationes in Evangeliorum versiones per antiquos duos, Goth. felicem & Anglo-Sax. &c. 2. Notes on the church-catechism, &c.