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Wiltshire / Re: Historical Police Records
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Wiltshire Gazette on 19th December 1839. It read:
WANTED FOR THE CONSTABULARY FORCE
in the COUNTY OF WILTS.
CONSTABLES.
Their pay to be 17/6d. per week, with clothing.
To be under forty years of age.
To stand five feet six inches without shoes.
To read and write and keep accounts.
To be free from any bodily complaint, of strong constitution
and generally intelligent.
The form of certificate of character to be signed by one or
more respectable persons, who have had personal knowledge
of the candidate during the last five years at least, either singly
or collectively, may be had by personal application to
Captain Meredith at the Magistrates' Office at Devizes
on Tuesdays and Friday, until on 31st December instant,
between the hours of ten and three o'clock.'
From ; https://narpo-wilts.org.uk/files/History-Wilts-Const.pdf
WANTED FOR THE CONSTABULARY FORCE
in the COUNTY OF WILTS.
CONSTABLES.
Their pay to be 17/6d. per week, with clothing.
To be under forty years of age.
To stand five feet six inches without shoes.
To read and write and keep accounts.
To be free from any bodily complaint, of strong constitution
and generally intelligent.
The form of certificate of character to be signed by one or
more respectable persons, who have had personal knowledge
of the candidate during the last five years at least, either singly
or collectively, may be had by personal application to
Captain Meredith at the Magistrates' Office at Devizes
on Tuesdays and Friday, until on 31st December instant,
between the hours of ten and three o'clock.'
From ; https://narpo-wilts.org.uk/files/History-Wilts-Const.pdf