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† ˈsheriffess Obs. rare.
[-ess.]
A woman who held the office of sheriff (when hereditary).
c1659Inscr. Barden Tower in Howitt's Vis. Remark. Places (1840) 217 Ladie Anne Clifford..High Sheriffesse by inheritance of the Countie of Westmerland. a1661Fuller Worthies, Westmerld. (1662) iii. 141, I find Elizabeth the Widdow of Thomas Lord Clifford,..Sheriffess (as I may say) in the sixteenth of Richard the second, till the last of K. Henry the fourth. 1819Monthly Mag. XLVIII. 5 Sir Roger de Clifford was killed in battle..about the year 1280. After his death, his widow sat in person, as sheriffess of the county of Westmoreland,..with the judges. |