borsholdern.
/ˈbɔːshəʊldə/ Obsolete exc. Historical.
The chief of a tithing (borrow n. 3) or frank-pledge; afterwards a parish officer identical in functions with the Petty Constable (= borrow-head n.1, headborough n., tithingman n.1). (Also figurative.)
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society > authority > office > holder of office > parish official > [noun] > tithingman or headborough
tithingmanlOE
frithborh-headc1200
headborough1375
thirdborough?c1475
frank-pledgec1503
borsholder1536
borrow-head1581
decurion1591
decener1607
chief-pledge1630
dean1647
1536 Act 28 Hen. VIII x Euery..hedborowe, thyrd~borowe, borsholder, and euery other lay officer.
1609 E. Hoby Let. to Mr. T. H. 3 I dispatched this paper, as my Borsholder.
1618 M. Dalton Countrey Justice 2 It seemeth the name and office of a Constable with vs, is the same that the Borsholder is in Kent, Thirdborow in Warwick-shire, and Tithingman and Borowhead is in other places.
1678 London Gaz. No. 1357/1 His Majesty doth hereby strictly Charge all Constables, Churchwardens, Headboroughs, Tythingmen, Borsholders, and other Parish Officers.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 356 The antient headboroughs, tithing-men, and borsholders, were made use of to serve as petty constables.
1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 15 Elsewhere, the name headborough, and elsewhere that of borsholder, was and is in use.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 114 The..Parish Constable and beadle, representatives of the Borh's Ealdor and the Bode or messenger of the Court.
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