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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
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battle
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array)  , the open space between the inner and
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outer lines of a fortification . Sometimes there were more than one, as the Inner and Outer
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Bailey; there are in
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England the Old Bailey at
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London and at
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York, and the Upper and Nether Baileys at
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Colchester .

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