单词 | shire-ground |
释义 | shire-groundn. Historical. Country divided into shires; a tract of country subject to the control of the authorities of a shire. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > shire or county > territory divided into shires shire-ground1535 1535–6 Act 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. 1536 Bp. R. Lee Let. to Cromwell in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. App. lxxvii. 183 The Proclamations as yet for the Shire grounds be not come: wherby Justice cannot be ministred in Wales. 1556 Irish Act 3 & 4 Philip & Mary c. 3 (1621) 251 Within sundry Townes, villages and other waste grounds of this Realme, being no shire grounds. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 181/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Sir John Perot..first thought it best to bring the whole land into shire grounds, whereby the lawes of England might haue a through course and passage. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) ii. 31 And so he continued Earle vntill the xxvijth yeere of his Raigne that Wales was reduced to sheere ground. 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 247 All this while, the Prouinces of Conaght and Vlster..were not reduced to Shire-Ground. 1846 Mitchel 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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