Lexicographical Neighbors of Tipstaves
Literary usage of Tipstaves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1920)
"Lancaster County, perhaps, is a fair type and average in this respect, and
Lam-aster County court criers and tipstaves in common pleas ami quarter sessions ..."
2. Wharton's Law-lexicon: Forming an Epitome of the Law of England; and by John Jane Smith Wharton (1883)
"... or tipstaves; constables attending courts. See 5 & 6 Viet. c. 22, s. 23; and
11 & 12 Viet. c. 7, s. 5. By the County Court Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Viet. c. ..."
3. Pennsylvania Archives by Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, George Edward Reed, Pennsylvania State Library, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban (1902)
"The effect of this bili, if it became a law, would be to pay fixed annual salaries
for court criers and tipstaves in all counties having population of one ..."
4. Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries: With Recollections of the Author by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"The tipstaves prepared me for a singular character in my jailer. ... In short,'
said one of the tipstaves, ' he is one as may be led, but he '11 never be ..."
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