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Definition of Headborough

Headborough
Headborough Head"bor*ough, Headborrow Head"bor*row n. 1. The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] --Blackstone. 2. (Modern Law) A petty constable. [Eng.]

Meaning of Headborough from wikipedia

- In English law, the term headborough, head-borough, borough-head, borrowhead, or chief pledge, referred historically to the head of the legal, administrative...
- the accusations leveled against Hero. Ben Elton as Verges, the local headborough and Dogberry's partner. Jimmy Yuill as Friar Francis, the priest at Claudio...
- Dogberry, the constable in charge of Messina's night watch Verges, the Headborough, Dogberry's partner Friar Francis, a priest a ****ton, the judge of the...
- Ursula, waiting-gentlewoman attendant on Hero. Tom Lenk as Verges, the Headborough, Dogberry's partner Nick Kocher as first watchman Brian McElhaney as...
- equivalent to the tithingman was therefore a borsholder, borough-holder or headborough. The Norman Conquest introduced the feudal system, which quickly displaced...
- police gradually took over powers from the local Parish Constable or Headborough, including the removal of bodies. The deficiencies of the local mortuaries...
- Henry Abraham a blacksmith and Margaret Broderick, the family moved to Headborough, County Waterford where Abraham was brought up. William Abraham studied...
- between 1768 and 1774. Robert Palk was born in December 1717 at Lower Headborough Farm in the parish of Ashburton, Devon, and was baptised on 16 December...
- pie-poudre is attached to the fair in Lent. The county magistrates hold...and headboroughs and other officers are appointed...at the court leet of the lord of the...
- in Kent, Sus****, and parts of Surrey, where the position was called "headborough". View of frankpledge, a judicial process, obliged each tithing to attend...