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Definition of Shrievalty
1. n. The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty.
Definition of Shrievalty
1. Noun. The jurisdiction or tenure of a sheriff ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shrievalty
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrievalty
Literary usage of Shrievalty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, Edward Manson, John Melville Gould (1898)
"Disqualification during shrievalty. The statute 1 Mury, eess. 2, c. ... He applied
during his shrievalty to be permitted to attend at the Quarter Sessions ..."
2. Life of John Wilkes by Horace Bleackley (1917)
"CHAPTER XV THE shrievalty 1770-1773 WILKES'S first task after leaving prison was to
... wisely regarding the shrievalty as a matter of minor consequence. ..."
3. Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (1889)
"179, Mr. Longstaffe has engraved the earl's shrievalty seal in 1396 from an
impression in the Capheaton archives, and comparing it with Mr. Hartshorne's cut ..."
4. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1908)
"... —this year of service in the shrievalty was both a necessary preliminary and
a sort of trial trip in the pageants and splendours of the highest civic ..."
5. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb (1908)
"... inspired by the example and precept of John Howard, that in "his 1 See the
description in A Journal of the shrievalty of Richard Hoare, 1740-41, ..."
6. The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of by Roger, Roger of Hoveden, Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
"On their departure, they appointed "William de Stuteville, and Geoffrey Haget,
to exercise supervision in Yorkshire over the archbishop and his shrievalty. ..."
7. The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of by Roger, Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
"On their departure, they appointed William de Stuteville, and Geoffrey Haget, to
exercise supervision in Yorkshire over the archbishop and his shrievalty. ..."
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