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(rare) Relating to, or ruled by, a bailiff.
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(Scotland, ecclesiastic) An attendant to the minister.
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Obsolete spelling of beadle, still in use for ceremonial officials at certain universities [A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.]
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(UK) A definitive geographic region, not generally having direct administrative functions, but which has an appointed Lord-Lieutenant. Similar to a traditional county.
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(Scotland, law) The foreman of a jury.
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The official title held by the British cabinet minister, who is responsible for all governmental economic and financial matters, including the treasury.
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(historical) In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents.
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Alternative form of chief justice. [The senior presiding justice of a court.]
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(Channel Islands) An elected head of a parish (also known as a connétable)
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(obsolete) A count or earl.
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A form of manorial court that administered the common law for free tenants
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(law, historical) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court.
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(US) A member of the United States Cabinet who stays at a physically distant, secure, and undisclosed location when the President, the vice president, and the other officials in the line of succession are gathered at a single location.
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(historical) The chief magistrate of a shire in Anglo-Saxon England.
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(obsolete) The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild.
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The rank or office of a gauger.
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(Britain) The sergeant-at-arms in the House of Lords.
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(politics, UK) The fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, the position is now considered to be sinecure.
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Alternative form of landdrost [(now historical) A type of magistrate in South Africa, abolished under the British in 1827.]
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The Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the representative of the Scottish (later British) monarch to the established church of Scotland appointed annually since 1690.
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The first of the Great Officers of State in England, nominally ranking above the Lord Chancellor. The office has generally remained vacant since 1421 and is now primarily ceremonial and filled only for a coronation.
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English rendering of temporary regent, acting for the absent monarchic head of state.
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(UK) An official appointed to a ceremonial county by the reigning British monarch to be responsible for the organisation of all official Royal visits to their county.
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(historical, by extension) A comparable official in medieval or modern institutions.
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A UK legislative instrument made by the Lord's of the Privy Council (in practice Government Ministers).
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(historical) The head of a preceptory of Knights Templar.
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(UK, historical) An officer appointed chief of Windsor, to hear all causes of death or maim, or of the slaughter of the king's deer.
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In France, one of a board of arbitrators formed from masters and workmen.
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(historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
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(historical) An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions.
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The term of office of a seneschal.
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The area of jurisdiction of a sheriff.
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Physical area administered by a sheriff.
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The chief administrative officer of a town, responsible for maintaining its records.
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The head of a corporation's treasury department.
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A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.
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(historical) A contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the Addled Parliament of 1614.
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A lower judge of chancery.
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(historical) Someone elected to take care of highways in a parish.
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