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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 218 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BAILEY (said to be a corruption of Ballium by some, and derived by others from the Fr. baille, a corruption of bataille, because there the soldiers were drilled in See also:
BATTLE
battle See also:
ARRAY (from the O. Fr. areyer, Med. Lat. arredare, to get ready)
array) , the open space between the inner and See also:

OUTER

outer lines of a fortification . Sometimes there were more than one, as the Inner and Outer See also:

Bailey; there are in See also:

England the Old Bailey at See also:

LONDON

London and at See also:

York, and the Upper and Nether Baileys at See also:

Colchester .

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