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A History of the County of Oxford
… Leading townsmen continued to participate in local life: justices of the peace included the grocer Ernest Tarrant, the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and ale seems sometimes to have been enforced by the royal justices, for reasons which are not clear. 29 Total income … with minor breaches of the peace, and, in cooperation with justices of the peace, licensed and regulated alehouses. … and others provided a character testimonial to the justices in 1701. 58 By the 18th century and probably earlier …
A History of the County of Oxford
… attended a meeting at Alvescot which was broken up by the justices. In 1682, after the churchwardens again reported …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… town-clerk; the alderman, high steward, and recorder are justices of the peace, with exclusive jurisdiction. The …
A History of the County of Essex
… relief was between c. £5 and £7 a year. 53 In 1692 the justices ordered that the poor be badged and in 1701 that …
A History of the County of Essex
… St. John of Jerusalem, p. 35. Pleas before King or his Justices, iv (Selden Soc. lxxxiv), P. 33. Cal. Chart. R. …