ESQUIRE

This name was original): applied only to the two attendanta o a knight, and it frequently was used in it abbreviated form, equire. As a title, i was reserved in time for people of certai: rank or standing, by birth or profe ion Thus, the eldest son See aig chee younger son of a nobleman might clain the title, as also might men in certaiz official positions, notably, officers of thi Kings, oseiold, barca sect an je nece ary to point ou pa a leted le mcy day is almost entirely [s. 137]