shrievalty in English
noun
1
the office, jurisdiction, or tenure of a sheriff.
Moreover, the combined salaries of the three wardens or lieutenants was now less than £400 per annum, and much of this was recouped by reviving the ancient practice of farming the shrievalties .
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