Beadle
Beadle ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English bedel, bidel, budel, Old French bedel, French bedeau, from Old High German butil, putil, German buttel, from Old High German biotan, German bieten, to bid, confused with Anglo-Saxon bydel, the same word as Old High German butil. See. Bid, v.]
1.
A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
2.
An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [English]
In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and bedell (Cambridge) are preserved.
3.
An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.