Stone Ward

Stone Ward is one of the four wards of the borough of Maidstone, alongside Bridge, Market and Week Wards, and like each of them it has two constables. Poorer lodgings here go for about two shillings a week, and during the hop season no landlord will give a stranger a bed for a single night. The ward book is kept by its constable, Hugh Longley, as the record of the ward's affairs.