(manceps),** a clerk of the kitchen, or caterer. An officer in the inner temple was anciently so called, who is now the steward there; of whom Chaucer, the ancient English poet, some time a student of that house, thus writes:

A manciple there was within the temple, Of which all caterers might take example.

This officer still remains in colleges in the universities.

**MANCUNIUM,** (anc. geog.), a town of the Brigantes in Britain. Now Manchester in Lancashire.