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† water-bailie Obs.
1. = water-bailiff 1.
1434Acts Privy Counc. (1835) IV. 197 Officium de Water⁓baily de Plymmouth. 1544in Lett. & Papers Hen. VIII, XIX. ii. 175 Personages to remain here at Boulloyn..Edw. Brown, water-bailly, [and others]. 1587Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 450/2 Ballivus marinus (watter baillie) Edinburgi aut Lethe. 1600Maldon (Essex) Documents Bundle 162, fol. 4, xliiii s. by them receyved of William Gylman, water baylie, for tolls, yssues, and profitts.
2. = water-bailiff 2.
1395Early Chanc. Proc. 3/30 in Sel. Cases Chancery (Selden Soc.) 14 Pur quel trespas le dit Andrew se Compleyna..del Waterbaille de Quenehithe ei come le leye et vsage del ewe demandent. 1467Dunfermline Reg. (Bannatyne Club) 359 [They] sall..set owre þare nettis..quhare þai lykis..ay quhill þe kingis water balȝe mak revlis in þe watire. 1493–4Rec. St. Mary at Hill 197 Item, spentt at the settyng of þe clarkes wages at þe waterbaylyis, ij d. 1518Star Chamber Cases (Selden Soc.) II. 152 To the waterbailly a gowne of iiij brode yardes and an half at vs. 1603Stow Surv. 539 The Sworde bearer, Common hunt, Water Bayly, common Crier,..&c. 1667Hale De Jure Maris v. in Hargrave Coll. Tracts (1787) I. 23 The office of a water-baillie or scrutator is a bare ministerial officer, which the king doth or may appoint in those rivers or places that are in his franchise... And his business was, to look to the king's rights, as his wrecks, his flotsan, jetsan, water-strays, royal fishes. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. xcvi, The Lord Mayor as Water-bayly and Conservator of the River of Thames. Ibid. p. cv, The Lord Mayor's deputy Water-bayly or Sub-Conservators. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 245 Ye Lord Major..attended by all his officers ye sword bearer and water Baily very well dress'd.
b. = water-bailiff 2 b. Now Sc.
So † water-bailiery Sc., the jurisdiction of a water-bailie.
1593in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870) I. 410 The watter bailliery of thair hevin and portt of Pettycure. |