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high constable

In England from the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509), an officer appointed to keep the peace in a hundred. High constables were chosen at the court-leets (court session of lord of the manor) of the hundred over which they presided.
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``I make the arrest,'' replied the Knight---``I, Henry Bohun, Earl of Essex, Lord High Constable of England.
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