bailif

Bailey, Old Fr. bailif (bailli), ranges from a Scottish magistrate to a man in possession.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

[By the mass!] [1: Notes] [2: reveal secrets] [3: betray to bailif or magistrate] [4: Notes] [5: Notes] [6: Notes; beggar] [7: Notes]

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

a bailif would exercise an office that was partly civil and partly traditional on the landed estates of England.

The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 Wesley Frank Craven 1943

Edward I.), in which we find the woes of poor Hodge incorporated in the persons of the hayward, the bailif, the wodeward, the budel and his cachereles (catchpoles) --

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

Hall yt is agreed by the asent and consent of the Aldermen and burgeses aforesaid, that Mr. Adrian Queney now bailif and Mr. John Shakespeare, shall at Hilary term next ensuing deale in the affairs concerninge the commen wealthe of the Borroughe according to their discrecions. "

Shakespeare's Family 1885