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ˈshire-moot Hist.
[f. shire n. + moot n.1; after OE. scírᵹemót.]
The judicial assembly of the shire in Old English times.
[a1036in Thorpe Diplom. Angl. (1865) 336 Her swutelaþ on ðissum ᵹewrite þæt an scirᵹemot sæt æt ægelnoðes stane be Cnutes dæᵹe cinges.] 1614Selden Titles Hon. 225 Amongst Knouts Collections, one is, that twise in the yeer, the Scyreᵹemot, i. the Shiremote (that which is now called the Shirifes Turne) should be held, and that in it should sit the Bishop of the Diocesse, and the Ealdorman. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 78 The Shire-mote or County Court met twice a year. 1890Hosmer Ags. Freedom 82 The time was coming when the broad suffrage of the shire⁓moots was also to be greatly curtailed. |