The title of the mayor of certain English towns.
A bound bailiff: a deputy bailiff charged with debt collection.
A high bailiff: an officer of the county courts responsible for executing warrants and court orders, appointed by the judge and removable by the Lord Chancellor.
A huissier de justice or other foreign officer of the court acting as either a process server or as courtroom security.
The chief justice and president of the legislature on Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
The foreman or overman of a mine.
Any law enforcement officer charged with courtroom security and order.
The title of the castellan of certain royal castles in England.
An overseer: a supervisor of tenant farmers, serfs, or slaves, usually as part of his role as steward (see above).
A reeve, (specifically) the chief officer executing the decisions of any English court in the period following the Norman Conquest or executing the decisions of lower courts in the late medieval and early modern period.
A landvogt in the medieval German states.
A head of a district ("bailiwick") of the Knights Hospitaller; a head of one of the national associations ("tongues") of the Hospitallers' headquarters on Rhodes or Malta.
An appointee of the French king administering certain districts of northern France in the Middle Ages.
A steward: the manager of a medieval manor charged with collecting its rents, etc.
Synonym of hundredman: The chief officer of a hundred in medieval England.
The High Bailiff of the Isle of Man.
Any debt collector, regardless of his or her official status.
A female mayor.
The wife of a (male) mayor.
A daughter or female friend of a male mayor chosen by him to hold the title mayoress.