Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word BAILIES
BAILIES
Definitions of BAILIES
- plural of bailie.
- plural of Bailie.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using BAILIES in a Sentence
- With the office of Great Seneschal vacant after 1191, the bailies became stationary and established themselves as powerful officials superior to provosts.
- On 24 May 1610, the Scottish Privy Council sent a letter to the Provost and Bailies of Tain, admonishing them for permitting the Munro to remain living among them and to continue preaching unmolested.
- Burgh status gave Fordoun the right to erect a market cross and hold weekly markets, elect bailies and hold an annual fairs on St Palladius day (which became the Paldy Fair).
- On 20 July 1548, a justiciary court held St Mary's Abbey ordered Archibald Hamilton of Raploch and the bailies of Lesmahagow to punish tenants in that barony for not joining the force besieging the town.
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