- 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...
- 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...
-
equivalent to the
tithingman was
therefore a borsholder, borough-holder or
headborough. The
Norman Conquest introduced the
feudal system,
which quickly displaced...
- 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...
- and
names a
number of
individuals such as Arkil,
Ralph and
William the
Headborough.
Bishop Middleham was one of the
favourite residences of the Bishops...
- 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 high
steward Coroner Twelve portmen Twenty-four
common council of
headboroughs An
indefinite number of
burgesses or
freemen A
recorder A town clerk...
-
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...
