TITHING-MEN, are now a kind of petty constables, elected by parishes, and sworn in their offices in the court-leet, and sometimes by justices of the peace, &c. There is frequently a tithing-man in the same town with a constable, who is as it were a deputy to execute the office in the constable's absence; but there are some things which a constable has power to do, that tithing-men and head-boroughs cannot intermeddle with. When there is no constable of a parish, the office and authority of a tithing-man seems to be all one under another name.