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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among their other responsibilities, Donne was steward of Kidwelly and an esquire of the king's body.
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At Doncaster the king was joined by his esquire , Gloucester's associate John Pilkington, who lent him 100 marks.
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Baynton was an esquire of the body by 1522.
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Berkeley, an esquire of the body, was constable of Southampton itself.
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By 1482 he had become an esquire of the king's body and was made captain and governor of Guernsey.