| 2H4 V.iv.1.1 | [stage direction] Enter Beadles dragging in Hostess Quickly and Doll Tearsheet |
| 2H6 II.i.137 | [Mayor to attendant] go fetch the beadle hither straight |
| H8 V.iv.65 | [Porter to Man, of the punishment to be given to trouble-makers] the running banquet of two beadles that is to come [i.e. public flogging] |
| KL IV.vi.161 | [Lear to imaginary people] Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand |