icant who stands at the head of 50,000 people.
Perhaps, therefore, the office of constable may be sought for in
future, and the officer himself assume a superior consequence.
The dates are the years in which they were chosen, fixed by charter,
within thirty days after Michaelmas.
CONSTABLES.
1680 John Simco John Cottrill
1681 John Wallaxall William Guest
1682 George Abel Samuel White
1683 Thomas Russell Abraham Spooner
1684 Roger Macham William Wheely
1685 Thomas Cox John Green
1686 Henry Porter Samuel Carless
1687 Samuel Banner John Jesson
1690 Joseph Robinson John Birch
1691 John Rogers Richard Leather
1692 Thomas Robins Corbet Bushell
1693 Joseph Rann William Sarjeant
1694 Rowland Hall John Bryerly
1695 Richard Scott George Wells
1696 Joseph Haddock Robert Mansell
1697 James Greir John Foster
1698 John Baker Henry Camden
1699 William Kettle Thomas Gisborn
1700 John Wilson Joseph Allen
1701 Nicholas Bakewell Richard Banner
1702 William Collins Robert Groves
1703 Henry Parrot Benjamin Carless
1704 William Brierly John Hunt
1705 Jonathan Seeley Thomas Holloway
1706 Robert Moore John Savage
1707 Isaac Spooner Samuel Hervey
1708 Richard Weston Thomas Cope
1709 Samuel Walford Thomas Green
1710 John Foxall William Norton
1711 Stephen Newton John Taylor
1712 William Russel John Cotterell
1713 John Shaw Thomas Hallford
1714 Randall Bradburn Joseph May
1715 Stephen Newton Samuel Russell
1716 Stephen Newton Joseph Carless
1717 Abraham Foxall William Spilsbury
1718 John Gisborn Henry Carver
1719 Samuel Hays Joseph Smith
1720 John Barnsley John Humphrys
1721 William Bennett Thomas Wilson
1722 John Harrison Simon Harris
A LIST
OF THE
HIGH BAILIFFS, LOW BAILIFFS, AND CONSTABLES,
Of the TOWN of BIRMINGHAM, from 1732, to 1782.
HIGH BAILIFFS. LOW BAILIFFS. CONSTABLES.
1732 Thomas Wilson John Webster Joseph Bradnock John Wilson
1733 John Webster Joseph Kettle Thomas Nickin James Baker
1734 John Wickins Thomas Lakin [2]Joseph Scott, esq; James Taylor
1735 Joseph Marston John Russell John Webster Thomas
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