Not only the pages of history, but all the hills and vales of his beloved Scotland are filled with living characters,lords and ladies, soldiers, pirates, gypsies, preachers, schoolmasters, clansmen, bailiffs, dependents,all Scotland is here before our eyes, in the reality of life itself.

There is the town of Savannah, where there is a seat of judicature, consisting of three bailiffs and a recorder.

In the southern divisions of the province lies the town of Frederica, with its district, where there is a court with three bailiffs and a recorder.

Everywhere in the country you will find railroads, but the whole great national system is controlled and managed at Stockholm; here you will find the governing boards for the clergy, for teachers, for physicians, for bailiffs and jurors.

She secured the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, and made a levy of several hundred millions sterling upon her bailiffs, whom she put in possession of her neighbour's property.

When the first Cantons, after expelling the Austrian bailiffs, had declared their independence, Lucerne was still one of Austria's advanced posts.

There were bailiffs in the house, I was told.

Don't abandon me, my friends!" The crowd at once began to press forward, and the bailiffs, fearing danger, let go of his hands and tried to disappear into the crowd.

There was much in colonial Maryland, with its lords of the manor, its bailiffs and seneschals, its courts baron and courts leet, to remind one of the England of the thirteenth century.

We have said that he kept a good table; for presents of game poured in from the gentlemen's bailiffs in the neighbourhood, fish from town to be repaid by summer visits, and if the fishmonger of the place was overstocked, the first person he sent to was our bookseller.

"The moment this man left his house, Mr. Tyson went in search of bailiffs and civil process.

You will find the bailiffs at Bare-acres very pleasant company; and I shall be freed from lending money to your relations, and from your own damned tragedy airs.

I have heard of a sea captain as fat as he, who, to escape arrests, would lay himself flat upon the ground, and let the bailiffs carry him to prison, if they could.

And being then asked why he did not discharge them, declared that they were bailiffs, who had introduced themselves with an execution, and whom, since he could not send them away, he had thought it convenient to embellish with liveries, that they might do him credit while they stayed.

Let any one read the account of the ten or a dozen authors whom Smollett describes himself, in "Humphrey Clinker," as entertaining at dinner on Sundays,that being the only day upon which they could pass through the streets without being seized by bailiffs for debt.

The population is sparse and scattered, the hamlets are few and far apart; even many of the farmhouses being only occupied by bailiffs.

I have run a risk for her,' he continued pathetically, and touched his brow, where the slight cut he had received in the struggle with Dunborough's men showed below the border of his wig, 'andand for that matter, Mr. Pomeroy is not the only man who has bailiffs to avoid.' 'Stuff me, Tommy, if I am not of your opinion!' cried Lord Almeric.

'I ask becausewell, I don't like to speak ill of the quality, or of those by whom one lives, Sir George; but he has not got the best name in the county; and there have been wild doings at Bastwick of late, and writs and bailiffs and worse.

These lords, therefore, do pray you, sir, for the love of God and because you ought to do so, to command your provosts and bailiffs that all those who shall remain a year and a day excommunicate be forced, by seizure of their goods, to get themselves absolved.'

A royal decree was addressed to all the bailiffs of the kingdom.

The bailiffs followed, for the most part successfully, but in some cases vainly, the instructions they had received.

These Factions tore the Corporation in Pieces for several Years, till at length they came to this Accommodation; that the two Bailiffs of the Town should be annually chosen out of the two Clubs; by which Means the principal Magistrates are at this Day coupled like Rabbets, one fat and one lean.

And the bailiffs defend all of it, and Richard likewise defends all of it and that he never heard any such proclamation made by anyone.

Bailiffs who assault their overseers may be imprisoned for a year, and an exception is made from the act of all miners of lead, iron, silver, tin, or coal, "called See Cole, otherwise called Smythes Coole," or for making of glass, but that part of the act fixing wages was repealed the very next year as to the city of London.

For example, they may be lappers of linen, bailiffs of the manor, they may let blood, or apply plasters, for three miles round; they may get a dispensation to hold the clerkship and sextonship of their own parish in commendam.