Beadle

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Beadle [1]

is a title of —

(1) certain university officials known also as bedells of divinity, arts, and law, who formally attend the authorities upon public occasions, to perform certain prescribed duties;

(2) a lay officer who preserves order in churches and chapels. (See Acolyth).

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