Beadle
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Bedel, [from Sax. beodan, to bid.] In English ecclesiastical law. An officer attached to a church, [or parish,] who is chosen by the vestry, and whose business is to attend the vestry, to give notice of its meetings to the parishioners, and execute its orders, to assist the constable in apprehending vagrants, &c. Shaw's P. L. c.
19, cited 3 Steph. Com. 93, note («).
See Bedel.
See Bedel.