A guide for constables, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the high-ways, treasurers of the county-stock, masters of the house of correction, bayliffs of mannors, toll-takers in fairs, &c. A treatise briefly shewing the extent and latitude of the several offices, with the power of the officers therein, both by common law and statute, according to the several additions and alterations of the law, to this present time. Wherein the heads of the new statutes for burying in woollen; for collecting the maintenance of the ministers in London; for the streets, pavements, sewers, and dreins in London; and for the prohibiting of French goods, are (among others) inserted under their proper titles. The eighth edition enlarged. Collected by Geo. Meriton, Gent.

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  • A guide for constables, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the high-ways, treasurers of the county-stock, masters of the house of correction, bayliffs of mannors, toll-takers in fairs, &c. A treatise briefly shewing the extent and latitude of the several offices, with the power of the officers therein, both by common law and statute, according to the several additions and alterations of the law, to this present time. Wherein the heads of the new statutes for burying in woollen; for collecting the maintenance of the ministers in London; for the streets, pavements, sewers, and dreins in London; and for the prohibiting of French goods, are (among others) inserted under their proper titles. The eighth edition enlarged. Collected by Geo. Meriton, Gent.
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Imprint
London: printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins esquires; and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1685.
Publication year
1685-1685
ESTC No.
R221810
Grub Street ID
95900
Description
[12], 86, [4], 87-175, [1] p. ; 12⁰
Note
Conductor generalis. A guide for churchwardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, ... has a separate dated title page immediately following p.86.

Signatures: A?, B-H??, I?.

This issue has 'bayliffs'. A variant of the title page has 'bailiffs'.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M1798A