bedels

The division of these servants into orders, resembling those of the bedels, has descended to modern days, most Oxford colleges having their upper and under "scouts."

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If the bedels, as public officials, were necessarily and conspicuously of the Privilege, the remark is not less true of those humbler functionaries, the personal attendants of the scholars.

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From every inceptor the bedels were entitled to a gratuity of twenty shillings and a pair of buckskin gloves, or an equivalent sum of money; and inceptors whose income amounted to forty pounds a year were compelled to feast all the Regent Masters or forfeit twenty marks to the

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In 1337 the latter, on resigning their office in congregation, according to custom, complained that the superior bedels had neglected to furnish them with board.

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The election of bedels was conducted in the same way as that of the

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As we have seen, the payment of the bedels depended in part on collections, and the gains of the scholars 'servants were derived from the same source.

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Failure to observe these regulations subjected superior bedels to the loss of their office when the time came for the maces to be resumed.

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The bedels were of two grades -- higher and lower; and the superior bedels were bound by immemorial usage to provide the inferior bedels with board and lodging and ten shillings a year for shoes.

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London, for example, the wards had their bedels, who were sworn, _inter alia_, to suffer no persons of ill repute to dwell in the ward of which they were bedels, and to return good men upon inquests.

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Thereupon the University decreed that the inferior bedels should be granted the option of standing at meals with the superior or receiving a weekly allowance of sevenpence as compensation.

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