Conservators of the Peace, a title usually applied to knights elected in each shire from the 12th century onwards for the conservation of the peace. They were in fact the predecessors of the Justices of the Peace (q.v.), by whom they were superseded.
Conservators of the Peace
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 427
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