🔤 Tharborough ✨

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🔊 Play Roman

qadeem mohafiz, mohalla afsar, daak qanoon afsar, qadeem constable, mohalla nigraan

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📚noun

tharborough

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DEFINITION

an archaic English term for a third borough or petty constable of a parish

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

In early modern village governance, the elected tharborough maintained public order and resolved local disputes. The historical record notes that the village tharborough collected local administrative fines and served official summonses. Villagers relied on the tharborough to enforce basic parish laws before modern police forces existed. The old magistrate directed the tharborough to investigate the minor theft reported near the market square. Scholars studying Tudor parish records frequently encounter duties assigned to the traditional local tharborough today.

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parish constable village officer petty constable local magistrate