Search
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward I
… Ivelcestre and were afterwards hanged, and accordingly the headboroughs of those places were attached to wait and ought … for their bodies, they found the said thieves, none of the headboroughs or other persons being present, strewn on the …
St Martin-in-the-Fields
… downes harrold byngam [marks] In the presence of the headboroughs. A headborough was the chief of Frank-pledge, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… paid. 16 Other manorial officers served Acton alone. Eight headboroughs were listed in the 14th and 15th centuries but … were two by 1528. Thereafter the two constables, with headboroughs and aletasters, were chosen annually until the …
Old and New London
… upon their houses, and even threatened the constable and headboroughs who, according to law, painted them up. "And …
A History of the County of Stafford
… until 1800, when the number of what were then styled headboroughs was reduced from four to one. 76 One headborough …