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Definition of Beadles
1. beadle [n] - See also: beadle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beadles
Literary usage of Beadles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Universities: From the German of V. A. Huber by Victor Aimé Huber (1843)
"The functions of the beadles in Oxford and Cambridge are ... chiefly superintend
police matters, thus performing the duties of our (German) Upper beadles. ..."
2. John Ap John and Early Records of Friends in Wales by William Gregory Norris, Norman Penney (1907)
"Elisha beadles (son of John beadles of the Pant in Llanfihangel ... At this there
were present: Elisha beadles, of Pont-y-moel; Richard Hanbury of ..."
3. The Reports of the Most Learned Sir Edmund Saunders, Knt: Of Several by Edmund Saunders, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, John Williams (1845)
"... being the four wards next adjoining to the said houses, that every of the said
beadles separately do return and summon six good and lawful men of each ..."
4. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1807)
"... these officers there are, within this jurisdiction, inquest men, surveyors of
the highway, constables, beadles, watchmen, scavengers, rakers, &c. ..."
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