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A History of the County of Essex
… from the overseers' or churchwardens' accounts, not the surveyors'. Road work was sometimes found for unemployed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 93 Local royalists rejoiced in 1649 when parliamentary surveyors were frightened from Woodstock manor house by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 4 and provided with a uniform. 72 Overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, and aletasters are treated … and intermittently in the 18th and 19th centuries 2 surveyors of the highways were also appointed at the leet. A … After the cessation of courts leet the vestry appointed surveyors of the highways and constables until 1886. 46 In …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 79 Churchwardens' accounts survive from 1763, 80 and surveyors' accounts from 1848 to 1866. 81 There was a …
A History of the County of Essex
… tenant far- mers who served as churchwardens, overseers, surveyors, and constables, and also from 1829 as assessors. … officers in 1785, 1807, and 1814. 31 In 1706 the highway surveyors were found to have been using rate- payers' money … to work in the village, the vestry receiving his wages. 35 Surveyors paid unem- ployed men 10 d. a day in the early 19th …
A History of the County of Sussex
… banks in the town, 11 solicitors, and 12 estate agents or surveyors. 26 Industrial development was not encouraged in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… part of the highway rate from the Broadwater parish surveyors, a provision that later caused disputes. 13 After …