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† baillie, bailly Obs.
Forms: 3–4 baillie, bailye, balye, 4 baili, -y, balie, bayly(e, beylie, 4–5 baly, baillye, 5 bailly, bayllye, 4–8 bailie.
[ME. baillie, a. OF. baillie (= Pr. bailia, It. balia) :—late L. bājulīa, f. bājulus officer, bailiff (It. bailo, balio, Pr. baile, OF. bail), with Romanic -ˈia of office. In med.L. ballia, balia, baylia, bayllia, from the modern langs. In Eng. the old spellings are mixed up confusedly with those of bailie (F. bailli) and bailey (F. baille).]
1. The jurisdiction, authority, charge, or office of a bailie or bailiff, in the original sense; jurisdiction or charge committed to an officer, delegated authority; stewardship.
c1305Fall & Passion 22 in E.E.P. (1862) 13 God ȝaf him a gret maistre..of paradis al þe balye. 1330R. Brunne Chron. 280 Þise tuo had baly of þis londes tueye. 1388Wyclif Luke xvi. 2 Ȝelde reckynyng of thi baili, for thou miȝte not now be baili. c1400Gamelyn 709 Now is thy brother scherreue, and hath the baillye. 1553–87Foxe A. & M. I. 623/1 Then it shall be said to us..yeld reckoning of thy baily. 1738Hist. Crt. Excheq. i. 3 There were two Sorts of Jurisdictions, the Fieffal and Bailie..This was the ordinary Jurisdiction which from the Bailees in Normandy was here delivered over to the Sheriff in every County which thence was called his Bailywick.
2. gen. Jurisdiction, authority, control, charge.
a1300Cursor M. 9551 Þis ilk king..A seruand had in his baili [v.r. bayly, baily]. c1380Sir Ferumb. 4335 He haueþ · on ys baylye x. þousant knyȝtes..To don al at ys wille. c1400Rom. Rose 4302 Whanne Jelousie Hadde Bealacoil in his baillie. c1450Merlin vii. 111 His seal, whiche that Vlfin hath yet in his kepynge in his bailly. c1460Towneley Myst. 207 Thou art here in our baly withoutten any grace of skap. 1475Caxton Jason 60 b, Whan the quene Ysiphile sawe that she had Jason in her bayllye.
3. The district under the jurisdiction of bailiff or bailie; a bailiwick.
[1292Britton i. ii. §9 Aylours qe en sa baillie (Elsewhere than in his bailiwick).] c1314Guy Warw. 249 Wold God..That he were here in mi beylie. c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 315 Þou schal won in þis bayly. 1330R. Brunne Chron. 61 Þe duke Siward had taken in his balie Machog. |