A parish constable, also known as a petty constable, was a law enforcement officer, usually unpaid and part-time, serving a parish. The position evolved...

A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in law enforcement. The office of constable can vary significantly in different jurisdictions...

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Melton Constable is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 6.96 km2 (2.69 sq mi) and had a population of 518...

by constables and watchmen. Constables were appointed or elected at the local level for specific terms and, like their UK counterparts the Parish Constable...

the title of chief constable. The title is derived from the original local parish constables of the 18th century and earlier. Constable and constabulary...

A special constable or special police constable (SC or SPC) can refer to an auxiliary or part-time law enforcement officer or a person who is granted...

stopped at his alehouse before the Lawrence attack, and called for the parish constable. Another account claims that two of the gang were spotted by a servant...

Tower Division": the High Constable of a hundred or division had charge of the parish constables of its constituent parishes. A Lord Lieutenant could commission...

ecclesiastical and secular well-being of the parish they served. Parish constables, sometimes referred to as petty constables, were attested by justices of the peace...

position of parish constable, a parochial officer subordinate to a hundred-constable. Although the parish constable and hundred-constable share the term...

first police, from settlement until 1879, had been nine parish constables (one for each parish). As had been the case in England, these positions were...

the office of constable at Carlisle before being dismissed from his role in 1844. He then became a court bailiff, then a Parish Constable at Longtown....

the laws then in force in Saint Landry Parish. They appointed a parish constable, a parish treasurer, two parish assessors, and an operator of the ferry...

or undersheriffs of manors. In England, the word came to refer to a parish constable of the Anglican Church, one often charged with duties of charity. A...

among the general population in England was carried out by unpaid parish constables who were elected, and later appointed by the local justice of the...

or stop a crime in progress: Parish Constable William Taylor, 1828 (fatally injured arresting two men) Police Constable Joseph Moss, 1879 (shot whilst...

be made by a justice of the peace or the sheriff, undersheriff or parish constable. It had to be read out to the gathering concerned and had to follow...

assist the connétable of the parish to maintain law and order. Officers are elected as centeniers, vingteniers or constable's officers, each with various...

overnight holding place where local drunks and criminals were taken by parish constables. Prisoners would then be brought before local Justice of the peace...

Constable Burton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Leyburn. The village takes its name from ‘Burton’...

police stations to replace the lock-ups it had inherited from the parish constable system. It also authorised him to top up the Police Superannuation...

grocers, a tailor & draper, a butcher, a shoemaker, a schoolmaster, a parish constable, and the landlord of Horse Shoes public house who was also a blacksmith...

Haslemere in the hands of the vestry of the parish church. The vestry was charged with appointing a parish constable, running a lock-up, maintaining local roads...

inciting workmen to leave their work. Early on the morning of 31 May, the parish constable of Boughton-under-Blean enlisted the help of his assistant and also...

Melton Constable Hall is a large (Grade I listed) country house in the parish of Melton Constable, Norfolk, England designed in the Christopher Wren style...

elected parish constables. It initially comprised a chief constable, who was based in Ampthill, 6 superintendents and 40 constables. Constables were paid...

the parish. One or more Douzaine representatives represent their parish at the States of Election when a new Jurat is elected. Two elected Constables (French:...

the City of London. It replaced a previously more diverse system of parish constables and watchmen. It is one of the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1895...

hence. From Paramatta, from New York, wheresoever, under what sort of Parish-Constable soever, English men and women are, they will say to one another: 'Yes...