Light is thrown upon this subject in a way which shows that the superior bedels themselves may not have been without a grievance.
The bedels were of two grades--higher and lower; and the superior bedels were bound by immemorial usage to provide the inferior bedels with board and lodging and ten shillings a year for shoes.
As we have seen, the payment of the bedels depended in part on collections, and the gains of the scholars' servants were derived from the same source.
Thereupon the University decreed that the inferior bedels should be granted the option of standing at meals with the superior or receiving a weekly allowance of sevenpence as compensation.
At Oxford the bedels were bound to make summonses for scholars at their request, and to arrest wrong-doers.
Here it may be noticed that the bedels exercised some control over the proceedings of the townsmen which concerned the interests of students.
The election of bedels was conducted in the same way as that of the Chancellor.
In 1337 the latter, on resigning their office in congregation, according to custom, complained that the superior bedels had neglected to furnish them with board.
Failure to observe these regulations subjected superior bedels to the loss of their office when the time came for the maces to be resumed.
The same year (1529) the University, not being able to obtain the assistance of the bailiffs, ordered the bedels to summon a jury for their leet.
In the face of such provocation the Proctors sent their bedels about the town, forbidding the students to leave their inns.
The Yeoman Bedels have black stuff gowns, and round silk caps.
The Esquire Bedels wear silk gowns, similar to those of Bachelors of Law, and round velvet caps.
At the University of Oxford, the yeoman-bedels bear the silver staves in procession.
The three former are carried by the Bedel of Arts and the two sub-bedels, the three latter are carried by the Bedels of the three higher faculties, Divinity, Law, and Medicine.
The legend that they had been concealed there by the loyal Bedels must be given up; no doubt they were put away when the present staves were procured in 1723.
Esquire Bedelsof the University, scarcely less eccentric than himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bedels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
