An essay on the office of constable. With rules and cautions for the more safe and effectual discharge of that duty. By Saunders Welch, Late High-Constable of Holborn-Division; Now One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, and for the City and Liberty of Westminster. A New Edition Corrected, And enlarged with An Introduction containing some Conjectures for fixing the Original of that Office in England; and certain Historical Anecdotes concerning the Rise and Progress of the Society of Thief-Takers, and the evil Consequences naturally resulting from an Institution of that Kind.

Date:

MDCCLVIII. [1758]