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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Cambs. (190033). Camb. Evening News, 22 Apr. 1971; Town Crier, 1 Feb. 1986. Businesses listed in inf. from Cambs. …
A History of the County of Leicester
… 5 s.; town clerk and mace-bearer, each 2 s. 6 d.; town crier and beadle, each 6 d.; four borough servants, each 1 … bequest. The corporation then made no payment to the town crier or beadle, there being no such officers in the town; …
A History of the County of Bedford
… audited by the common council, 71 serjeants-at-mace, town crier and beadle. Amongst officers now obsolete may be named …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… also attended the Corporation with the mace and acted as crier of the borough court. 116 Buckingham Borough was not …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… from 1556 779 to 1614 at least. 780 In 1574 there was a crier ( preco) and aletaster. 781 In 1614 when the two … of liquor and presented the drunken; the beadle and crier collected tolls, cleaned the corn market, impounded … of aletaster, 910 and by 1915 had fused aletaster and town crier. 911 Fines for not attending council meetings and for …
A History of the County of Sussex
… two headboroughs' staves, and the brass badge of the town crier (1708). The arms of George III (1773) are preserved … not before it was needed. 202 In 1768 or 1769 the town crier 'cried the small-pox' 203 and there were several cases …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… serjeants at mace and bailiffs, a beadle who was also town crier, billet master, and borough policeman, and a treasurer. …
A History of the County of Northampton
… other minor officials of the corporation were the town crier, the hallkeeper, and, from 1584 to 1698 at least, the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… There are now two serjeants-at-mace who, with the crier, are attendant upon the corporation and justices. The … the corporation being managed by the common council; one crier, who attended quarter sessions, kept the weights and scales, and keys of the market gates, and acted as crier for those who paid him; besides the water-bailiff (of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of those who were listed. In the mid-18th century a town crier signed the charity accounts along with other officers …