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Definition of Headboroughs

Headborough
Headborough Head"bor*ough, Headborrow Head"bor*row n. 1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] --Blackstone. 2. (Modern Law) A petty constable. [Eng.]

Meaning of Headboroughs from wikipedia

- In English law, the term headborough, head-borough, borough-head, borrowhead, or chief pledge, referred historically to the head of the legal, administrative...
- Dogberry, the constable in charge of Messina's night watch Verges, the Headborough, Dogberry's partner Friar Francis, a priest a ****ton, the judge of the...
- pie-poudre is attached to the fair in Lent. The county magistrates hold...and headboroughs and other officers are appointed...at the court leet of the lord of the...
- the street in front of their property was paved and kept clean. The headboroughs of the four wards of the town, as leet officer were charged with overseeing...
- the accusations leveled against Hero. Ben Elton as Verges, the local headborough and Dogberry's partner. Jimmy Yuill as Friar Francis, the priest at Claudio...
- Ursula, waiting-gentlewoman attendant on Hero. Tom Lenk as Verges, the Headborough, Dogberry's partner Nick Kocher as first watchman Brian McElhaney as...
- equivalent to the tithingman was therefore a borsholder, borough-holder or headborough. The Norman Conquest introduced the feudal system, which quickly displaced...
- usually the local Overseers of the Poor, aided by constables, tithingmen, headboroughs and other officers of the peace. In March 1801 every Overseer was charged...
- police gradually took over powers from the local Parish Constable or Headborough, including the removal of bodies. The deficiencies of the local mortuaries...
- Waterford Harrowhill 451 Coshmore and Coshbride Templemichael Youghal Headborough 536 Coshmore and Coshbride Kilwatermoy Lismore Helvick 231 Decies within...