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ˈshire-ground Hist.
Country divided into shires; a tract of country subject to the control of the authorities of a shire.
1535–6Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 26 §24 The said liberties shall continue and be used in every Lordshipp parcell of the said Duchie [of Lancaster] within the Dominion..of Wales, as the liberties of the said Duchie be used in Shire grounde and not Countie Palantyne within this Realme of England. 1536Bp. Roland Lee Let. to Cromwell in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. lxxvii. 183 The Proclamations as yet for the Shire grounds be not come: wherby Justice cannot be ministred in Wales. 1556Ir. Act 3 & 4 Ph. & Mary c. 3 (1621) 251 Within sundry Townes, villages and other waste grounds of this Realme, being no shire grounds. 1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. 181/1 in Holinshed, Sir John Perot..first thought it best to bring the whole land into shire grounds, whereby the laws of England might haue a through course and passage. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire ii. (1892) 31 And so he continued Earle vntill the xxvijth yeere of his Raigne that Wales was reduced to sheere ground. 1612Sir J. Davies Why Ireland, etc. 247 All this while, the Prouinces of Conaght and Vlster..were not reduced to Shire-Ground. 1846Mitchel Aodh O'Neill 226 On O'Neill's part the conditions were that he should..suffer his country to become ‘shire-ground’, and admit the functionaries of English government. |