Dover watch

The Dover borough watch: a beadle for the quay quarter and two constables for the borough, backed by the corporation's serjeants.

Named with it

• Beadle Walter Charing · beadle

Ties

• under the Dover corporation

At the table

Rarely present in the quay streets, which govern themselves. The beadle takes the watch up the hill on four unexplained nights a year, a list handed down from the previous beadle. Its book records four affrays in a decade, all on the hill.