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Survey of London
… or esquires, and there were also a surgeon, a cook and a beadle, but 38, well over half of all the ratepayers in the …
Old and New London
… meet in the Royal Exchange before business hours, till the beadle had at last to drive them away to make room for the …
A History of the County of York
… Occasionally, too, subordinate officials are noticed: a beadle looking for cutpurses in 1299; and a serjeant sent to …
Old and New London
… portrait of Thomas Bagshaw, who died in 1794, having been beadle to the Company forty years, and who for his long and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… coroner and a clerk were recorded in 1275. 27 In 1374 the beadle received a free dinner or 1 d. in lieu on court days. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… appointments were those of a sexton, vestry clerk, and beadle, mentioned respectively in 1691, 1696, and 1730. … the vestry clerk became assistant overseer in 1756 and the beadle performed a similar function from 1798 before the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in all. 23 A swineherd was appointed in 1567; 24 a beadle 25 for rogues appears in 1573, and in 1578 are found …