† sheriffessn.
Obsolete. rare.
A woman who held the office of sheriff (when hereditary).
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sheriffessc1659
c1659 Inscription on Barden Tower, N. Yorks. Ladie Anne Clifford..High Sheriffesse by inheritance of the Countie of Westmerland.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 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.
1819 Monthly Mag. 48 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.
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