At 5:07:26 PM on Friday, September 19, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:
[...]
> What about the VIth century you previously mentioned ?
I've no idea what it is, I'm afraid, but I've no doubt that
there is a source containing the word <mariscalcus> that can
with some confidence be dated to the 6th century; the
editors of the OED are not given to flights of fancy.
Brian