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And the vengeance Sweeney seeks here feels as much political — a rebellion against elites, like judges and beadles — as personal.

Johnny knew when his own case would soon be called because he heard the Justice tell a beadle to run down to Long Wharf and tell Merchant Lyte to present himself in half an hour.

Then Soames reappeared and plodded about like a parish beadle, backing down the steam radiator valves.

The Sergeant-at-Arms might appoint a beadle to bridle the tongues of the everlasting talkers, and an official with a large extinguisher should make them harmless after they had bored the House for five minutes.

The state of being, or the personality of, a beadle.