Obs. [f. STREET sb. + WARD sb.] The office of guarding the streets; the market-dues payable to the holder of this office.
1202. in Cal. Charter Rolls (1903), I. 257. Quieti de geldis … et de shirys et hundredis, et de sectis eorum infra burgum et extra, et de stretwardis, et de omnibus placitis.
15[?]. in Dugdale, Monast. Angl. (1661), II. 187/2. Præterea idem Comes dedit præfato Nigello Constabulario suo, le Streteward in nundinis Cestriæ & Marketzell in omni terra pertinente ad honorem de Haulton. Ibid. Et valent per annum le Streteward & le Marketzeld xviii. s. & ob.
