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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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MARISCHAL, n. Also -all, mareshal(l). Sc. forms and usage of Eng. marshal. The spelling survives only in hist. usage and in the name of Marischal College in the University of Aberdeen, founded by George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal, in 1593. As in Eng., a high officer in the Royal Household originally judge under the High Constable (s.v. Heich, III. 5.) in the Court of Chivalry. In Scot. the title was hereditary in the family of Keith from the 13th c. and in 1458 Sir William Keith received the peerage title Earl Marischal. The office became extinct in 1716 with the forfeiture of the estates of George Keith, 10th Earl, for his part in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. [′mɑrʃəl]Sc. 1714 H. Tayler Seven Sons of the Provost (1949) 51:
Our Earl Marischall walks with the Earl Marshall of England. The Lyon walks after Garter [at the coronation of George I.].Sc. 1738 J. Chamberlayne Pres. State of Scot. 183:
Earl Marischal was always in the Family of Keith. An Ax was the Badge of Office. These two last Officers before the Union kept their Guards, the Constable without, and the Marischal within the Parliament House, where they exercised their Jurisdictions in Time of Parliament, or Convention; which were very great, extending to all Crimes whatever committed within the House, or four Miles of the Parliament, or Convention, where the King was in Law supposed to be present.Sc. 1858 Carlyle Frederick xix. viii.:
Marischal-College Keith, or Fifth Lord Marischal was grandfather's grandfather of our Potsdam Friend, who is tenth and last.Sc. 1872 C. Innes Sc. Legal Antiq. 142:
Admittance [to Parliament] . . . without vote or voice, is allowed to the eldest sons of noblemen, to the senators of the College of Justice, to the Marischal, to the Lyon's ushers [after 1662].