catchpolls

Gregory, and him my lady's man, my lady's stables is the last place catchpolls would come a-seeking Godby.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

Says I to you, by reason o 'two lousy catchpolls as won't let poor Godby be.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

Says I to you, because these lousy catchpolls being set on poor Godby by this black dog

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

And yet, plague and perish it -- here's me warned off my pitch, here's me wi 'the damned catchpolls on my heels, and all along o' this same Gregory

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

Howbeit they durst not shoot lest they should alarm the house, and I'm very light on my feet and being small and used to dodging catchpolls and the like vermin, I got safe away.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

Found catchpolls lurked there, true to his surmise.

Georgian Poetry 1911-12 Various 1912

And so be magistrates, and catchpolls [constables] and all the lawyer folk.

Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Butman and his fellow catchpolls had no thought of putting themselves to any personal discomfort.

Anthony Burns : a history, 1856

No! there is nobody here whom you shall arrest; and, by the holy mother of God, were your eyes not blind, you would have seen that here, where the king is taking an airing with his consort, there could be no one whom these catchpolls had to look for!

Henry VIII and His Court Henry Niles Pierce 1843

There were neither public commotions, nor private quarrels; neither parties, nor sects, nor schisms; neither persecutions, nor trials, nor punishments; nor were there counsellors, attorneys, catchpolls, or hangmen.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821