Bailiwick

A bailiwick is usually the area of ]

In American English as a metaphor for the sphere of knowledge or activity.

The term survives in administrative usage in the British Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands, which are grouped for administrative purposes into two bailiwicks — the Bailiwick of Jersey comprising the island of Jersey together with uninhabited islets such(a) as the Minquiers in addition to Écréhous and the Bailiwick of Guernsey comprising the islands of Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Brecqhou, Herm, Jethou and Lihou. A Bailiff heads regarded and transmitted separately. Channel Island bailiwick.

A bailiwick German: Ballei was also the territorial division of the Teutonic Order. Here, various “Komturen” formed a Ballei province.

The word is now more loosely used in a metaphorical sense, to indicate a sphere of authority, experience, activity, study, or interest.

Bailiwick of Bicester Market End

At Bicester in Oxfordshire, the Lord of the Manor of Market End was the Earl of Derby who, in 1597, sold a 9,999 year lease to 31 principal tenants. This in effect presented the manorial rights to the leaseholders, ‘purchased for the return of those inhabitants or others who might hereafter obtain parts of the demesne’. The leaseholders elected a bailiff to receive the profits from the bailiwick, mainly from the administration of the market and distribute them to the shareholders. From the bailiff's title, the arrangement became requested as the Bailiwick of Bicester Market End. By 1752 any of the original leases were in the hands of ten men, who leased the bailiwick rule of the market to two local tradesmen.




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