He lost the shrievalty for his stubborn independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

The shrievalty of Mr. Hoare, and his brother officer, expired on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832] Reference

Matilda, each of whom in turn had granted the shrievalty of London and.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

Papillon and Du Bois might be called to the shrievalty, but it was to no purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

A very pretty custom obtained, as we learn by the records of Evelyn's father's shrievalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference

Lord Mayor -- and the three great eras of my existence were the year of my shrievalty, the year of my mayoralty, and the year after it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829] Reference

Judges, small magistrates, officers large and small, the shrievalty, the water office, the tax office, all were to come within its purview.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

In somewhere like Lincoln or Bristol, the shrievalty would cost you five or six hundred pounds; but the sheriffs of those towns are richer than cardinals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

Sir PETER proceeds to discourse of the mysteries of life and death in a manner that shows that the executions of his shrievalty were not lost upon his comprehensive spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841] Reference

Also, those here who give their services to the cause of law and Wisdom in shrievalty, freely, for nothing, they surely - you surely - love Wisdom and rise early to seek it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermon at the Temple Church] Reference

After dinner the king knighted York in recognition of his hospitality and his past services, an honour personal to York and not extended to his colleague in the shrievalty, Richard Turke.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

Huey or Colores Archer, under Flaggy Bridge (for ann there is but one liv and hir newbridge is her old) or to explode his twelvechamber and force a shrievalty entrance that the heavybuilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

The new sovereign, treating his surrender of the castle as treachery, took the shrievalty from him, disseised him of Amounderness and sold his cantreds of Limerick land to William de Braose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Irregular in his habits, lax in his morals, a spendthrift and an insolvent, he could not resist the incessant attacks upon Clinton, nor the offer of the shrievalty of New York, with its large income and fat fees.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

They did not come forward like the shrievalty of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3] Reference

Then his shrievalty had been a great expense to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family] Reference

"Indeed! and I should fancy a credit to the shrievalty.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys] Reference

Twice Watt was requested to undertake the honor of the shrievalty; in.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Watt] Reference

Mr. Stephen Tidey Senior, sir, as you may be aware, is next on the list for the shrievalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lighted Way] Reference

In the next month he was recommended in a letter from Queen Elizabeth for the shrievalty of the county of Cork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

He ought to do something to make his shrievalty memorable ... and, moreover, the Lord-Lieutenant was an old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brother Copas] Reference

I beg if he should ever meddle in any election in Hampshire, that you will serve him to the last drop of your shrievalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

The supreme court of the territory was sitting at Santa Fe, and its decision upon the shrievalty would be announced in a few days.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Hoops of Steel] Reference

On Saturday of the first week in October Judge Harlin received a private dispatch from Santa Fe saying that the supreme court had decided the shrievalty contest in favor of Joe Davis, the Democratic candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Hoops of Steel] Reference

As Segrave was sheriff of five shires, and the bishop himself had acquired the shrievalty of Hampshire, this involved the transference of the administration of over two-thirds of the counties to the bishop's dependants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference

He rode to the august structure of retributive Themis, as the French call a gallows, in all the pride and pomp of shrievalty, and with a splendid retinue of well-equipped knaves and varlets, as our ancestors called honest serving-men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maid Marian] Reference

Why this Missouri citizen and Federal official should in addition be clothed with a foreign territorial shrievalty of a county lying forty or fifty miles from his home is a mystery which was never explained outside a Missouri Blue Lodge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01] Reference

He granted the burghers of Laon a charter which maintained them provisionally in the enjoyment of their political rights, but with this destructive clause: "Said commune and said shrievalty shall be in force only so far as it shall be our pleasure.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2] Reference

103) Hence it is that the shrievalty of London and Middlesex is often spoken of as the shrievalty of.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

1050) Nevertheless the shrievalty became so unpopular that an order had to be passed against aldermen who had not already served as sheriff resigning their gowns for the purpose of avoiding service. (.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

1683) he and his late colleague in the shrievalty, Samuel Shute, together with Lord Grey of Wark, Alderman Cornish, Sir Thomas Player, the city chamberlain (who had recently been called to account for moneys received).    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

19. shrievalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference