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[suzconestable] (1343-50)
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[suzconestable] (1343-50)

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southconestable,  southeconstable,  souzconestable  
  FEW:  comes *2,941a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  conestable (sosconestable)  DMF:  sous-connétable  TLF: ∅ OED:  sub-constable n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  subcontabularius 3231c

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occupationdeputy or assistant to a constable (chief officer of a town or household): 
( 1343-50; MS: 1343-50 ) Et le southeconstable chaoit as genoilles as piés le roy  Cron Lond1 84.5
( 1376 ) chief conestables des hundredes et southconestables des villes  Rot Parl1 ii 341
suzconestable d’Engleterre
titlestatusmil.deputy or assistant to the Constable of England (one of the chief functionaries in the English royal household and supreme judge of military offences and of questions of chivalry): 
( 1381 ) Come nostre tresamé frer Thomas [...], conestable d'Engleterre, nous ad commys son poair d’ordener et assignere en sa absence un tiel souzconestable d'Engleterre come nous meultz semblera  GAUNT2 ii 344.1088

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See also:

conestable  suz1 
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