On the way, he met various people -- a laborer, a shepherd, abeadle, some laundresses -- and asked whether they had seen the children.
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Oh, it's sickening, replied thebeadle.
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Thebeadlehas varying duties, always relating to management or security (but not instruction), and often represents the college to outsiders through wearing a uniform and providing information.
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In the eighteenth century the churchbeadlewent around the parish farms, kirton and hamlets at the time of the death and later when the funeral arrangements had been settled.
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In the end, the beadles arrested them and the conflict was taken to court.
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Not a penny could be spared for 'amenities'; for partridges and wine, beadles and turf, books and cigars, libraries and leisure.
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On the other hand, there are numerous indications of violent behaviour on the part of the beadles during just such activities.
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The guards and beadles, by contrast, just stood back and watched while the burghers looked for ways to resolve the conflict.
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Tellingly (considering what was to come later) he had the parish beadles canvass on his behalf.
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The subordination of thebeadleto the other burghers was also expressed in the social obligation of thebeadleto doff his hat before all burghers.
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Punishment of delinquents or the control of town life by officers of the town council (such as thebeadle), however, also played a minor but formative regulatory role.
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Henceforth, the authority of the chancellor came to be symbolized in the maces carried by his two beadles on official occasions.
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The "schulklopfer" was usually abeadle, who would perform the task by wandering around the community, knocking on each household's door.
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He refused to go unless accompanied by abeadleor a servant.
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Thebeadlehad to call the children to classes by ringing the village bell.
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