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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 977 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONSERVATOR (See also:Lat. conservare, to preserve)  , one who preserves from injury, a See also:guardian or custodian . In the See also:middle ages the See also:title of See also:conservator was given to various See also:officers, such as those appointed by the See also:council of Wiirzburg in 1287 to protect the privileges of certain religious persons, the guardians of See also:academic rights in the university of See also:Paris, certain See also:Roman magistrates as See also:late as the 16th See also:century; or the conservator Judaeorum who was enjoined to look after the See also:Jews of the See also:county of See also:Provence in 1424 . By the 2 See also:Henry V. there was appointed a' conservator of truce and safe conducts in each See also:English seaport " to enquire of all offences done against the See also:king's truce and safe conducts, upon the See also:main See also:sea, out of the liberties of the cinque ports." In See also:Scotland the conservator of the See also:realm (c . 1503) had See also:jurisdiction to See also:settle the disputes and protect the rights of Scottish merchants in See also:foreign ports or places of See also:trade . In See also:England the conservators of the See also:peace (custodes pacis) were the precursors of the See also:modern justices of the peace . See also:Stubbs traces their origin to the See also:assignment of knights, in 1195, to enforce the See also:oath to preserve the peace which See also:Richard I. ordered to be taken by all persons above the See also:age of 15 . By the 1 See also:Edward III. conservators of the peace were appointed for each county to guard the peace and to hear and determine felonies . The See also:office was reconstituted by the See also:parliament of 1327, and its See also:powers were extended in 1360 . From the See also:sovereign and the See also:lord See also:chancellor down to the See also:justice and the See also:village See also:constable, all who have to do with the repression of See also:crime are included within the See also:general See also:term of conservators of the peace . As commonly used nowadays in England, the term conservator is applied only to the guardian of a museum or of a See also:river (see See also:THAMES) .

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