Plural form of bedell; multiple university or cathedral officials.
Simple plural of bedell, formed by adding -s. The root remains the same Latin and Old French origin as bedel and bedell.
The existence of multiple spelling variants (bedel, bedell) in their plural forms shows how inconsistently scribes applied rules—some documents might have bedels and bedells mixed together on the same page!
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