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† constablery Obs.
[a. OF. conestablerie, f. conestable (cf. med.L. constabulāria): see -ery.]
1. The office of a constable; constableship.
c1400Rom. Rose 4218 Thanne Drede hadde in hir baillie The kepyng of the conestablere [F. connestablie] Toward the north. c1450Merlin xxi. 373 Gawein..ye will take the Constabilrie of myn housolde. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 647 The constablery of Fraunce. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 48 Holden..of the constablery of the same castel.
2. The district under a constable; a constablewick.
1610N. Riding Rec. Soc. I. 201 John Harland, living within the constablery of Spaunton. 1690Royal Proclam. in Lond. Gaz. No. 2568/2 In their several Parishes, Hamlets, Constableries, and Divisions respectively. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. III. 417 East Lothian, or the constablery of Haddington. |