Seneschal

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An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in theMiddle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domesticceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing ofjustice, and was given high military commands.Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale.Milton.Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first establishedroyal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, orseneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains.Hallam.