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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, borsholder, tithingman.
c1440Promp. Parv. 231/2 Heed borow (K., H. hed⁓borwe), plegius capitalis. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 10 Constables, hede borowes, and katers. 1536Act 28 Hen. VIII, c. 10 Euery..counstable, hedborowe, thyrd⁓boroughe, borsolder, and euery other lay officer. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. Induct. i. 11, I must go fetch the Head⁓borough. Beg. Third, or fourth, or fift Borough, Ile answere him by Law. 1642Rogers Naaman 228 Oh! yee Headburrowes, and Officers of Townes, let this truth of God convince yee. 1722De Foe Plague (1884) 301 There died six and forty Constables and Headboroughs. 1766Entick London IV. 389 The officers stand thus; 6 church-wardens..3 headboroughs. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xi. III. 11 The Whig theory is..that the right of a king is divine in no other sense than that in which the right of a..judge, of a juryman, of a mayor, of a headborough, is divine.
b. transf. An official holding a similar position in foreign countries.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions i. iv. 47 The head⁓borough of the Citie (whom we call the Mayour). 1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 152 Two other headboroughs, one of Dantzick, and the other of Elburg. 1843Borrow Bible in Spain xlix. (1872) 283, I was visited by various alguazils, accompanied by a kind of headborough who made a small seizure of Testaments and Gypsy Gospels. |