Soon, John was elected high bailiff – mayor, in effect.
The deputy high bailiff, Alastair Montgomerie, adjourned the case until October 19 for social inquiry reports to be prepared.
I got a taxi to the courthouse in Douglas where Kershaw would appear before the island's high bailiff, Michael Moyle.
"I'm not sure what the high bailiff does," Helen O'Donnell, the town clerk, said at the time.
I had already noted with no little astonishment that the notable aesthete and poseur Sir Roy Strong was attending the service as High Bailiff of Westminster.
I am reminded that the first time I ever cast a ballot – exactly 30 years ago, as it happens, in Vermont, where I was at college – I voted for myself for the office of high bailiff of Addison County.
In the 1996 general election, the 601 Tunbridge voters gave Mr. Tuttle 5 write-in votes for United States representative, 6 for governor, 1 for lieutenant governor, 3 for state treasurer, 2 for secretary of state, 1 for attorney general, 2 for state senator, 2 for state representative and a whopping 14 for high bailiff.
The deputy high bailiff's court in Douglas was told Ms Banner had made claims of harassment dating back to last October.
In the centre aisle hangs a large brass candelabrum donated by Leonard Piddocke, High Bailiff of Leicester, in 1733.
His father, John, was a political figure in Stratford, rising to the position of high bailiff, which, as Sylvan Barnet, the editor of the Signet Classic series, pointed out, was "the equivalent of mayor".
Police had cordoned off the street while high court bailiffs moved the occupiers out of the building, and the eviction passed off peacefully.
