† constableryn.
Obsolete.
1. The office of a constable; constableship.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > high officials of state > [noun] > constable > office of
constableryc1400
constableship1464
constabulary1587
constablewicka1693
c1400 Rom. Rose 4218 Thanne Drede hadde in hir baillie The kepyng of the conestablere [Fr. connestablie] Toward the north.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxi. 373 Gawein,..ye will take the Constabilrie of myn housolde.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f.ccxviv The Constablery of Fraunce.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 48 Holden..of the constablery of the same castel.
2. The district under a constable; a constablewick.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [noun] > under a (petty) constable
constablery1610
constabulary1631
constablewick1678
1610 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 201 John Harland, living within the constablery of Spaunton.
1690 Royal Proclam. in London Gaz. No. 2568/2 In their several Parishes, Hamlets, Constableries, and Divisions respectively.
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. III. 417 East Lothian, or the constablery of Haddington.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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