Watch & enforcement
Dover watch
Also called the watch · beadle and constables
The Dover borough watch: a beadle for the quay quarter and two constables for the borough, backed by the corporation's serjeants.
Named with it
- Beadle Walter Charing
Ties
- under the Dover corporation
At the table
Rarely present in the quay streets, which govern themselves. The beadle takes the watch up the hill on four unexplained nights a year, a list handed down from the previous beadle. Its book records four affrays in a decade, all on the hill.