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bailivate

noun

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  1. The office of bailiff.

    • She granted him also the office of purveyor of the said manor of Eltham, together with the bailivate of the town of Eltham
    • During his bailivate he ceases to be reckoned one of the approved men; but on the expiration of his year of office, he takes again among them the rank he held before.

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