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Town-meetings in ancient Greece and Rome Clans; the mark and the tun The Old-English township, the manor, and the parish The vestry-meeting Parish and vestry clerks; beadles, waywardens, haywards, common-drivers, churchwardens, etc.

From Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins by Fiske, John

Slaves often were used as ploughmen, sowers, haywards, woodwards, sheperds, goatherds, swineherds, oxherds, cowherds, dairymaids, and barnmen.

From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.

Such were the beadle, sexton, haywards, ale-conners, waymen, way-wardens, sidesmen, synodsmen, swornmen, questmen, and perhaps some others.

From American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Cheyney, Edward Potts

For the rest, they tended their herb garden, reared their chickens, which were famous for miles around, and kept strict watch over their haywards and swineherds.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various