Antedating of "Policeman"

[Fred Shapiro]

policeman (OED 1801)

1791 _The Parliamentary register: or, history of the proceedings and
debates of the House of Commons of Ireland_ X. 310 (Eighteenth Century
Collections Online)  Has not the policeman been guilty of more insolence
and outrage than ever the soldier was.

Fred Shapiro


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