Make yourselves quite easy; the king's writ was never but once in these parts; and the 'original and true copy' went back to Limerick in the stomach of the server; they made him eat it, Mr. Lorrequer; but it's as well to be cautious, for there are a good number here.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
There's been another bailiff shot in Mayo, and we've had a process-server nearly beaten to death down our side of the counthry.
"Muslin"
George Moore
There was a process-server, or a bailiff, or something of the kind, serving notices through the townland yesterday, and he lost a shoe off his baste, and would have Miles out, to put it on, tho' we all tould him that he buried his daughter-a fine grown girl-that mornin'.
"St. Patrick's Eve"
Charles James Lever