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† viˈcontiel, n. and a. Obs.
Also 7 vicondell, 7–9 viscontiel. β. 6–7 vicountiell, 7–9 -iel. See also vicountile.
[a. AF. vicontiel, f. viconte viscount. Cf. OF. vicontal, F. vicomtal.]
A. n. pl. Certain sums regularly payable to the Crown by a sheriff and charged against him in the Exchequer accounts.
1548Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 4 §3 [To] be discharged of all suche Fermes and Sommes of money..excepte onlie of the Vicountielles of their Shires wherewithe they shalbe chardged. 1607Cowell Interpr. s.v., There are also certaine fermes called Vicountiels, which the Shyreeue for his time payeth a certaine rent for to the King, and maketh what profit he can of them. 1642C. Vernon Consid. Exch. 11 The..Sheriffe..to deliver a book written in parchment, declaring of whom and where he receiveth the vicondells, and other the Rents and Farmes written unto him in the Summons of the Pipe. 1738Hist. Crt. Excheq. v. 89 This sum was an Item placed after his Vicontiels. [1819Statutes of Realm IV. 43 marg., Allowance to all Sheriffs for Vicountiels out of lands coming into the King's Hands.]
B. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to a sheriff.
α1614Selden Titles Honor 253 Our officiarie Vice⁓comites or Shirifes, which haue diuers Actions Viscontiel, and inquirie of criminall causes. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1824) 230 The highest authority that he [the sheriff] hath is but vicontiel. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. i. lxi. 191 Other Courts also were in the countrey, and were Vicontiel or Courts of Sheriffs and Lords of Hundreds and corporations. 1670Act 22 Chas. II, c. 6 §1 Guild Rents, Pensions, Vicontiel Rents, Assart-Rents [etc.]. 1798Gentl. Mag. Oct. 850/1 Not far from the church of Bromham lies..the chantry-house, to which appertained certain annual vicontiel or fee farm rents. 1798Rep. Comm. Ho. Comm. (1803) XIII. 107 The Rents whereof (called Viscontiel Rents) are in the Collection of the Sheriffs of the several Counties, Cities, and Towns in England. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. vii. 684 The second consisting of certain rents called viscontiel rents, or rents for which the sheriffs were accountable.
β1630Doddridge Hist. Wales 40 For all the ordinary Ministers and executioners of the processe of the Lawes of England, or which haue Vicountiell iurisdiction, are the Officers of particular Shires. [1819Statutes of Realm IV. 43 marg., Sheriffs taking Tallies shall be chargeable for Vicountiel Farms, &c.]
2. Of writs: (see quots.).
1607Cowell Interpr. s.v. Vicountie, Writs vicountiel are such writs as are triable in the countie or Shyreeues court. a1683Scroggs Courts-Leet (1714) 84 This Writ is a Vicountiel, and in the Nature of a Justicies in which the Sheriff shall hold Plea. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 238 This writ of admeasurement..is one of those writs, that are called vicontiel, being directed to the sheriff,..and not to be returned to any superior court, till finally executed by him. |