bailies

They were, indeed, the fathers of the city; and there were bailies and deacons in the honoured number.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

I do not deny that it will cost thee some trouble to make thy peace with Catharine about this duel; for she thinks herself wiser in such matters than king and council, kirk and canons, provost and bailies.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

The lord provost is equal in dignity to the lord mayor of London; and the four bailies are equivalent to the rank of aldermen. —

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

There was in the inn a _sanctum sanctorum_ where only were allowed the bailies of the burgh, a tacksman of position, perhaps, from the landward part, or the like of the Duke's Chamberlain, who was no bacchanal, but loved the company of honest men in their hours of manumission.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

More than once his hand went to his fob with an unconscious response to his interest in the passage of the time; with difficulty he clenched his teeth upon the yawns that followed his forced smiles at the murmured pleasantries of the humble bailies and town councillors in his midst, who dared only venture on a joke of their own, and that discreetly muffled, when there was a pause in the conversation of the

Doom Castle Neil Munro

Then a fishing-boat took them to Anstruther in Fifeshire, where they surrendered to the bailies.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

Alexander, he procured himself to be served "lawful and nearest heir-male in general of the body of the said Hannah Alexander," before the bailies of Canongate, 1826.

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

The bailies had proclaimed a general muzzling, and his master, studying strength and economy mainly, had encompassed his huge jaws in a homemade apparatus, constructed out of the leather of some ancient

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

_ The bailies had proclaimed a general muzzling, and his master, studying strength and economy mainly, had encompassed his huge jaws in a homemade apparatus, constructed out of the leather of some ancient breechin.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Glasgow, Montgomery himself appeared, accompanied by the provost and bailies and an escort of soldiers, and produced an interdict under the

Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison