CATCHPOLE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CATCHPOLE, officer. A name formerly given to a sheriff's deputy, or to a 
  constable, or other officer whose duty it is to arrest persons. He was a 
  sort of serjeant. The word is not now in use as an official designation. 
  Minshew ad verb.