"bailiff-errant" meaning in English

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          "text": "The warrant straight was made, and therewithall / A Baylieffe-errant forth in post did passe […].",
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          "ref": "1727, The Compleat Sheriff, page 311:",
          "text": "This Return is not good, because this Arrest is the proper Arrest of the Sheriff, and no Credit is to be given to the Bailiff errant.",
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          "ref": "2007, David Roffe, Decoding Domesday, page 122:",
          "text": "In 1219, Gilbert le Gluton held land and an oven in Nottingham by sergeancy as a royal bailiff errant.",
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        "An official employed by the sheriff to carry out summonses, writs etc. within the county."
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        "(now historical) An official employed by the sheriff to carry out summonses, writs etc. within the county."
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