Guazil

1667, The English Rogue, by Richard Headhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/50416/50416-h/50416-h.htm This made him haste to the Guazil or Judge, to acquaint him of what had hapned; who upon information given, came to the prison in person, attended with Officers and other people: where having caused their irons to be struck off, he ordered their bodies to be dragged through the Town, and so cast in the Sea.