Obs.
1. = WATER-BAILIFF 1.
1434. Acts Privy Counc. (1835), IV. 197. Officium de Water-baily de Plymmouth.
1544. in Lett. & Papers Hen. VIII., XIX. II. 175. Personages to remain here at Boulloyn … Edw. Brown, water-bailly, [and others].
1587. Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot., 450/2. Ballivus marinus (watter baillie) Edinburgi aut Lethe.
1600. Maldon (Essex) Documents, Bundle 162, fol. 4. xliiii s. by them receyved or William Gylman, water baylie, for tolls, yssues, and profitts.
2. = WATER-BAILIFF 2.
1395. Early Chanc. Proc., 3/30, in Sel. Cases Chancery (Selden Soc.), 14. Pur quel trespas le dit Andrew se Compleyna … del Waterbaille de Quenehithe ei come le leye et vsage del ewe demandent.
1467. Dunfermline Reg. (Bannatyne Club), 359. [They] sall … set owre þare nettis …. quhare þai lykis … ay quhill þe kingis water balȝe mak revlis in þe watire.
1493–4. Rec. St. Mary at Hill, 197. Item, spentt at the settyng of þe clarkes wages at þe waterbaylyis, ij d.
1518. Star Chamber Cases (Selden Soc.), II. 152. To the waterbailly a gowne of iiij brode yardes and an half at vs.
1603. Stow, Surv., 539. The Sworde bearer, Common hunt, Water Bayly, common Crier,… &c.
1667. Hale, De Jure Maris, v. in Hargrave, Coll. Tracts (1787), I. 23. The office of a water-baillie or scrutator is a bare ministerial officer, which the king doth or may appoint in those rivers or places that are in his franchise…. And his business was, to look to the king’s rights, as his wrecks, his flotsan, jetsan, water-strays, royal fishes.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., p. xcvi. The Lord Mayor as Water-bayty and Conservator of the River of Thames. Ibid., p. cv. The Lord Mayor’s deputy Water-bayly or Sub-Conservators.
c. 1710. Celia Fiennes, Diary (1888), 245. Ye Lord Major … attended by all his officers ye sword bearer and water Baily very well dress’d.
b. = WATER-BAILIFF 2 b. Now Sc.
So † Water-bailiery Sc., the jurisdiction of a water-bailie.
1593. in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870), I. 410. The watter bailliery of thair hevin and portt of Pettycure.
