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Bedel

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In English law

A crier or messenger of court, who summons men to appear and answer therein.

Cowell.

An officer of the forest, similar to a sheriff's special baillff.

Cowell.

A collector of rents for the king.

Plowd. 199, 200.

A well-known parish officer.

See Beadle.