1637 W. Laud Let. 26 May in (1770) II. 132 If the University would..bring in some Bachelors of Art to be Yeomen-Bedels, which are well grounded and towardly to serve that Press, as Composers..they..might after be preferred to be Esq; Bedels.
1853 ‘C. Bede’ vii. 60 The Vice-Chancellor, with his Esquire and Yeoman-bedels.