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Constableship   Listen
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Constableship  n.  The office or functions of a constable.






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"Constableship" Quotes from Famous Books



... the constable warned a number of housekeepers to attend him for the night. Those who chose never to attend, paid him six shillings a year to be excus'd, which was suppos'd to be for hiring substitutes, but was, in reality, much more than was necessary for that purpose, and made the constableship a place of profit; and the constable, for a little drink, often got such ragamuffins about him as a watch, that respectable housekeepers did not choose to mix with. Walking the rounds, too, was often neglected, and most of the nights spent in tippling. I thereupon wrote ...
— Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Benjamin Franklin



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