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, his office and the authority of a tithing man seems to be all one under another name.