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BAILEY (said to be a corruption of Ba...

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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
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battle 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 Bailey; there are in England the Old Bailey at
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London and at York, and the Upper and Nether Baileys at Colchester .

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