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                  Bai Bar Bas

                  baron

                  strictly speaking, someone who holds his lands (‘barony’) direct from the Crown, which used to be accompanied by certain privileges, particularly as regards the administration of justice and the right to sit in Parliament (this last limited to the greater barons in the 15th century).