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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and in the south-western part of the county, watches, watch-movements, and watchmakers' tools are made to a …
Final Concords for Lancashire
… or his heirs, between Welpesat and Styrespol, without a watch being set ( sine wardo facto), they should be driven …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… tried, as in 1344 and 1421, to enforce the duty of keeping watch according to the Statute of Winchester. 24 Following … orders were issued in 1533 that tenants should perform the watch when their turn came, even for those messuages with no … because he would neither join in keeping the common watch nor pay scot and lot for his many decayed messuages on …
Langford Parish: Langford
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… demesne. 11 Another of their customary obligations was to watch over the harvest at night: on one occasion in 1274 a …
A History of the County of Chester
… by the mayor and met in the inner Pentice, set up a night watch, supervised by the ward constables, 15 and a fire …
A History of the County of Chester
… repairs, the council managed with committees for finance, watch (i.e. police), paving, city lands, repairs and … from the borough rate, between £1,500 and £3,250 from the watch rate, and smaller sums from a great variety of other … the three smaller parts other than the borough rate were a watch rate for the police force (3 d. in the pound 1876-1904, …
A History of the County of Chester