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ˈunderˌsheriff
Forms: (see sheriff).
[under-1 6 a: cf. sheriff 2.]
A deputy sheriff.
α1431in Raine Scriptores tres (Surtees) App. p. ccxxi, Ye shall noon hafe to be your undershireve or clerk that was undershyreve or any of the Shyreves clerkes the last yere passed. 1452–3Paston Lett. Suppl. (1901) 48 He schall non undirshireve, ne non othir officer make. 1535Coverdale 1 Esdras vi. 7 The vnder shreue in Syria and Phenices. 1558in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. lxii. 457 The officers of this town..and the undershereve. 1631F. Lenton Charact. G 3 b, An Vndershriefe..is the feare and terror of all debtors. a1658Cleveland Poems, Young Man to Old Wom. 35 Like Aldermen, or Under-shrieves With Canvas Backs, and Velvet-Sleeves.
β1444Rolls of Parlt. V. 108/1 No Sherryff, ne Under Shereff, ne Clerk of the Sherryff. 1501Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 159 Which Inpanell the sayd William Rossell had of the underschereffe of Nottingham. 1589R. Payne Briefe Descr. Ireland 5 There is a sheriffe of euerie countie, with vndersheriffes. 1632Massinger City Madam v. ii, An Under-sheriffe,..being well paid, will serve An extent on Lords or Lowns land. 1665Extr. St. Papers Friends Ser. iii. (1912) 240 The Bishop of Durham..nominates both high sheriffs and under sheriffs. 1723in Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) I. 130 He made a speech at the gallows, and delivered a paper to the undersheriff. 1769Wesley Jrnl. 13 July, The Under-Sheriff had promised the use of the Town-hall. 1835App. Munic. Corpor. Rep. iii. 1991 (Nottingham), Officers of the corporation..[include] Two Sheriffs. An Under-Sheriff, who is also Steward. 1877Burroughs Taxation 327 The under-sheriff cannot perform the duties of collector.
Hence undersheriffry, undersheriffship, undersheriffwick, the office of an undersheriff.
a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) M 7 b, His honesty and learning bring him to Under-Shriveship. 1620J. Wilkinson Coroners & Sherifes 50 All emoluments..to the office of sherifwicke or undersherifwicke belonging. 1625Bacon Ess., Praise (Arb.) 357 The Cardinals of Rome..call all Temporall..Emploiments, Sbirrerie; which is, Vnder Sheriffries;..Though many times, those Vndersherifferies doe more good, then their High Speculations. [1666Bp. Parker Platonic Philos. 17 Being raised above the little concernments and under-Shreiveries of this life (as the Cardinals of Rome are pleased to stile all secular employments).] 1782Burke Let. Penal Laws Rom. Cath. Wks. 1792 III. 527 The exclusion from the law,..from sheriff⁓ships, and under-sheriff-ships. 1845Ld. Campbell Chancellors I. 512 He declined a handsome pension.., which he could not hold without resigning his under-sheriffship. |