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<p> derived by Spelman, Vossius, and others from Sax. Bidel, which signifies a crier; thus bishops, in many old [[Saxon]] MSS., are called the "Bedells of God," praecones Dei. The name is now applied in [[England]] almost exclusively to the bedells of the. universities, who carry the mace before the chancellor or vice-chancellor. Martene says that the inferior apparitors, who cited persons to court, were also called bedells. — Landon, Eccl. Dict. 2, 121. </p> <p> (See [[Beadle]]). </p> | <p> derived by Spelman, Vossius, and others from Sax. Bidel, which signifies a crier; thus bishops, in many old [[Saxon]] MSS., are called the "Bedells of God," praecones Dei. The name is now applied in [[England]] almost exclusively to the bedells of the. universities, who carry the mace before the chancellor or vice-chancellor. Martene says that the inferior apparitors, who cited persons to court, were also called bedells. — Landon, Eccl. Dict. 2, 121. </p> <p> (See [[Beadle]]). </p> | ||
