occupationtitlebeadle, bailiff, etc. (a minor officer of justice):
(
s.xii
)
Si le prudome dit que il n’i fud pas sumuns, ço deit l’om saveir par la bedel de la guarde
Bor Cust ii 50
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii2/4
)
Tuz ses pruvoz e ses bedeaus, Ki de la cité guardeins furent
S Jean ANTS 196
(
MS: s.xiii2
)
angarius -rii: bedel
TLL i 379
(
1278-79
)
la chartre dit ke nul forester ne bedel ne face escotale
Forest Pleas 126
(
1321
)
comanda qe checun deseine
(=dozen, jury) demura [...] en une chambre par sei et que viconte ne bailli
(var. bedel) ne nul autre les aprochat
YBB Ed II xxvi 27
♦
occupationbailiff, agent, steward (acting for a lord on his estate):
(
c.1245;
MS: c.1255
)
Puis en fu custume surse E coillette en real burse De bedeus cuveitus [...]
S Edw paris ANTS 930
(
c.1270;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
E il
(=bailiff) deit defendre ke nul provost, ne nul bedel, ne nul hayward [...] ne chivauchent [...] lez chivas charetteres
HENLEY2 270.c25
♦
beadle (serving one of the craft companies):
♦
porter, door-keeper:
(
1417-73
)
Item, J.W. bedyll, [...] et si la seisin fuist fait as terme des ans ou en fee simple [...]
Goldsmiths’ Reg Deeds 149r
♦
herald, crier:
(
1214;
MS: 1214-16
)
(St Gregory preached Christian doctrines) haut e clerment Com evangelien bedel
S Greg 1259
(
MS: s.xiii/xiv
)
precones: (D) bedeus, bedel
TLL ii 130
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bedel (s.xii)