MR. JEBB, in his Query respecting the _exoticæ voces_ "Marigmerii" and
"Melinglerii," seems to be right in his conjecture that they are both of
them corruptions of some word answering to the French _Marguillier_, a
churchwarden. The word in question is probably _Meragularius_. It appears
to be a term but rarely used, and to occur but once in Martene, _De Antiq.
Eccl. Ritibus_, tom. i. p. 233., Venice, 1783, in the conclusion of his
extract "de ordinario MS. ecclesiæ Cabilonensis;" where the officer in
question performs the duty of the Vestararius:
"Diaconus et Subdiaconus inter se plicant vestimenta sua, Meragularius
præstat auxilium sacerdoti."