lieutenantshipn.
The office of a lieutenant. Now rare.
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1467–8 Rolls of Parl. V. 588/1 The Office of Stuardeship or Lieftenauntship of oure Lordeship and Maner of Wodestoke.
1591 H. Savile in tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 242 In that Lieutenantship hauing spent scarsely three yeares, he was called home to bee Consull.
1626 J. Mead Let. 16 Sept. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 149 The Earl of Warwick is put out of his lieutenantship, and, which is more, out of the commission for the peace.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 226 Antipater..having succeeded Antipas his Father in the Lieutenantship of Idumœa.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) II. xxxiv. 445 The King gave him [the Marquis of Northampton]..the lieutenantship of the chase of Hampton Court.
1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 4 He had been proposed for a lieutenantship, when..he deserted.
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