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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• O'callaghan, Edmund Bailey
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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• Gamaliel Bailey
• Nathan Bailey
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Bailey, Dudley P.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Bailey, Nathan
• Bailey, Philip James
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
• Thomas 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 battle array), the open space between the inner and 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 London and at York, and the Upper and Nether Baileys at Colchester.