I was recently transcribing a perambulation of the Manor of Old Sodbury in Gloucestershire found in the manorial court records and, in the introduction, it lists those who walked the boundaries. It named the steward, the bailiff and the hayward and then it described a couple of men as being the 'carnivalls'. The word was clearly written at times. I have never come across this term before and can find no definition of it (other than the current definition of a carnival). Does anyone know what a carnivall did. The period concerned was the 1780s. Liz #6058. GWINNETT, etc.