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The compleat constable. : Directing all constables, headboroughs, tithingmen, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, and scavengers, in the duty of their several offices, according to the power allowed them by the laws and statutes: continued to this present time, 1700. Also directions for the London constables. To which is added a treatise of warrants and commitments, proper for the knowledge of all constables, &c

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1700.
Call number: 433447
Creator: R. G (active 1690-1728)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 12mo
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