The old custom of a country excursion was revived by the foreman of the Headborough Inquest at Yarmouth.
An under-officer of Cossacks and a headborough [22] came out.
The Normans naturally substituted French or Latin names for Anglo-Saxon ones; headborough became praepositus, and shire-reeve or sheriff became vicecomes.
The fifteenth century constable was taught to look for the support of his fellow-citizens in case of need, though not to the same extent, perhaps, as the headborough was wont to rely on the members of his tything.
All men went armed in those days, and since the members of a tything were obliged on the summons of a headborough to join in the pursuit, the cry of "Stop thief" was a formidable weapon in the hands of the local executive.
As much as thirty-six shillings a day could be earned by a headborough by appearing in a prosecution at the Old Baily, and bribes from those employed in the liquor traffic were a still more profitable source of income.
The leet or law day, the view of frankpledge for this hundred, was held on Easter Tuesday, when all the officers of the hundred, except the headborough of Patcham, were elected.
He is to go round the town with the Officers to make the Militia list, and is likewise to officiate as Headborough in the Town; but not elsewhere, and to be sworn for that purpose.
With great courage and determination the headborough rose to his feet and again attempted to enforce his authority, but with no better result.
He may even have been informed that they were descendants of the Headboroughwhom his father had knocked down.
At that moment Mr Edmund Hambley, a much-respected maltster and the headborough of Liskeard, was attracted to the spot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headborough" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
