To the constables, tythingmen, and other his Majesty’s Peace Officers

Posted on February 10, 2023 by km55

Title: To the constables, tythingmen, and other his Majesty’s Peace Officers of [blank] in the said county, for due execution and return therof. : You are hereby required in his Majesty’s name, forthwith to summon and warn [blank] to appear before me, or others of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said county …
Publication: [Somerton, England] : [publisher not identified, [ca. 1809]
Manufacture: [Somerton, England] : Barrett, typ. Somerton, [ca. 1809]

File 66 809 T627

Acquired October 2021

The constable’s guide to his duty

Posted on June 2, 2022 by km55

book, printed text

Title: The constable’s guide to his duty : containing instructions to constables, petty constables, headboroughs, tithingmen, &c. in the several particulars of their office.
Publication: Oswestry : Printed and sold by J. Salter, MDCCXC [1790]

63 790 C756

Acquired April 2021

Posted on April 3, 2020 by km55

Author: Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820, author.
Title: A treatise on the functions and duties of a constable : containing details and observations interesting to the public, as they relate to the corruption of morals, and the protection of the peaceful subject against penal and criminal offences / by P. Colquhoun, Esq., LL. D.
Publication: London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, St. James’s; for J. Mawman in the Poultry, and J. Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1803.

646 803 C722

Acquired June 2019

Posted on July 16, 2013 by km55

Title: A proposal for regulating the nightly watch within the city and liberty of Westminster, and to make those that are now of little service, and a great burthen upon the housholders, the most useful men and the best night-guard in the kingdom ; and to prevent the frequent robberies and riots committed in the streets.
Published: [London?] : [s.n.], [1755?]

File 652 755 P965

Acquired April 2013