Definition of "headborough" [head•bor•ough]

• The head of a frankpledge or tithing (noun)
• A petty constable in a parish (noun)

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• "About ten days before the time of which I am speaking, I was visited by various alguazils, accompanied by a kind of headborough, who made a small seizure of Testaments and Gypsy Gospels, which happened to be lying about."
• "He is BONUS SOCIUS with headborough and constable."
• "Is there no constable, nor headborough, though, to take me out of his house? for I am sure I can safely swear the peace against him: But, alas! he is greater than any constable: he is a justice himself: Such a justice deliver me from! —"