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headborough (ˈhɛdˌbʌrə) Forms: 5 -borwe, 5–7 -borow, 6–7 -borowe, -boroughe, 7 -burrowe, -burrough, 8 -bourg, 6– -borough. Originally, the head of a friðborh, tithing, or frank-pledge (see borrow n. 3); afterwards a parish officer identical in functions with the petty constable; = borrowhead, borsho...
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Headborough
In English law, the term headborough, head-borough, borough-head, borrowhead, or chief pledge, referred historically to the head of the legal, administrative In the Anglo-Saxon system of frankpledge, or frith-borh, the headborough presided over the borhsmen in his jurisdiction, who in turn presided over the
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Sir Robert Palk, 1st Baronet
Origins
Robert Palk was born in December 1717 at Lower Headborough Farm in the parish of Ashburton, Devon, and was baptised on 16 December 1717 at the Baronetcy
On 14 November 1760 "Robert Palk of Headborough" received a grant of arms as follows: Sable, an eagle displayed argent beaked and legged or a
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thridborrow
ˈthirdborough, ˈthridborrow Obs. exc. Hist. Also 5–6 (7–8) thrid-, 6 thred-, thur-, thar-, 6–7 therd-; 5 -borro, 6 -bourogh(e, -borow(e, 6–7 -barow(e, -barrow, 7 -borrow, -bearer. [In 15th c. thridborro, 16th c. thridborowe, later third-borow; and with both elements variously corrupted. Early eviden...
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Walter Palk
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He was the eldest son of Walter Palk (d.1801) of Headborough and Yolland Hill, in the parish of Ashburton, a small farmer and clothier, by his
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borrow-head
† borrow-head1 Obs. exc. Hist. (ˈbɒrəʊhɛd) [f. borrow n. 3 + head; cf. borsholder. The fuller form friðborhheved occurs in the (Latin) Laws of Edward the Confessor xx. Writers from the 16th c. onwards have often confounded borrow n. 3 with borough; hence the incorrect form borough-head, commonly ado...
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Jermenovci
He escaped from the siege set by the gendarmes, but killed the local headborough/village judge, his very last victim.
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borsholder
borsholder Obs. exc. Hist. (ˈbɔːshəʊldə(r)) Also 6 borsolder, 6–8 bosholder, 7 bursholder, 9 in historical writers bors-, borhs-ealdor. [The spelling borghesaldre in the AF. Statutes of the Realm (I. 223) points to OE. *borᵹes aldor, f. borᵹes, gen. case of borh (borrow n. 3) + alder n.2 Not connect...
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James Bernard (politician)
He married Esther Smyth, youngest daughter of Percy Smyth of Headborough, son of Sir Percy Smyth of Ballynatray, County Waterford, and his wife Elizabeth
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tithingman
tithingman1 (ˈtaɪðɪŋmæn) [f. tithing n. 3 + man n.1] a. Anciently, The chief man of a tithing (n. 3), a headborough; in later use, a parish peace-officer, or petty constable (constable 5 c). Now Hist.946–c 961 Laws of Edgar c. 2 Cyðe hit man ðam hundredesmen, & he syððan ðam teoðingmannum. 1432 Roll...
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Richard Plunkett (beadle)
Richard Plunkett (1788–1832) was a Parish Officer of the Law, variously described as a headborough, beadle or night-constable, in Whitechapel, in the East
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William Abraham (bishop)
He was born in Glendine, County Cork to Henry Abraham a blacksmith and Margaret Broderick, the family moved to Headborough, County Waterford where Abraham
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Parish constable
take charge of the tithing – an appointment usually known as "chief pledge", except in Kent, Sussex, and parts of Surrey, where the position was called "headborough
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John Speed's Ipswich
Each ward had a headborough who was the leet officer for the ward.
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Bishop Middleham
The survey was particularly detailed and names a number of individuals such as Arkil, Ralph and William the Headborough.
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