Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bailiff of marsham n.

[such a fever sprang from the mosquitoes and poisoned air of the damp and stagnant marshlands]

the ague or malarial fever; thus arrested by the bailiff of marsham, stricken with the fever.

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[UK] (ref. to 17C) in J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.