YOU shall Swear, that you shall well and truly serve our Sovereign
Lord the King in the Office of a Constable.  You shall see and cause
his Majesties Peace to be well and duly kept and preserved, according
to your power.  You shall arrest all such persons as in your sight and
presence shall ride or go armed offensively, or shall commit or make any
Riot, Affray, or other Breach of his Majesties Peace.  You shall do your
best endeavour (upon Complaint to you made) to apprehend all Felons,
Barreters and Rioters, or persons riotously assembled:  and if any such
Offenders shall make resistance (with force) you shall levy Hue and Cry,
and shall pursue them until they be taken.  You shall do your best endeavour
that the Watch in and about your Town be duly kept for the
apprehending of Rogues, Vagabonds, Night Walkers, Eves Droppers,
and other suspected persons, and of such as go armed, and the like:
and that Hue and Cries be duly raised and pursued, according to the
Statute of Winchester, against Murtherers, Thieves, and other Felons:  and
that the Statutes made for the punishment of Rogue and Vagabonds,
and such other idle persons, coming within your Bounds and Limits, be
duly put in execution.  You shall have a watchful Eye to such persons as
shall maintain or keep any common house or place where any unlawful
Game is or shall be used:  as also to such as shall frequent or use such
places, or shall use or exercise any unlawful Games there or elsewhere,
contrary to teh Statutes.  At your Assizes, Sessions of the Peace, or Leet,
you shall present all and every the Offences done contrary to the Statutes
made (1 Jac. 4 Jac. and 21 Jac. Reg.) to restrain the inordinate haunting
and tipling in Inns, Alehouses, and other Victualling Houses, and for
repressing of Drunkenness.  You shall there likewise true Presentment
make of all Blood-sheddings, Affrays, Out-cries, Rescous, and other
Offences committed or done against the Kings Majesties Peace within
your Limits.  ' You shall once every year during your Office present at
' the Quarter Sessions all Popish Recusants within your Parish, and their
' Children above 9, and their Servants, (sc. their monthly absence from
' the Church) 3 Jac. 4.  And you shall have a care for the maintenance of
' Archery according to the Statute.  You shall well and duly execute all
' Precepts and Warrants to you directed from the Justices of peace of this 
' County, or higher Officers.  You shall be aiding to your Neighbours
' against unlawful Purveyances.  In the time of Hay or Corn Harvest (upon 
' request) you shall cause all persons meet to serve by the day for the
' Mowing, Reaping, or getting in of Corn or Hay.  You shall in Easter
' Week cause your Parishioners to chuse Surveyors for the mending of
' the High-Ways in your Parish.  You shall have a care that the Malt
' made or put to sale in your Town, be well and sufficiently made, trodden,
' formed and dressed.  And you shall well and duly according to
your knowledge, power and ability, do and execute all other things
belonging to the Office of a Constable, so long as you shall continue in
this Office.  So help you God.