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vicecomitas

vicecomitas [vicecomes+-tas] 1 office or dignity of sheriff, shrievalty. concessit ‥ eis ad habendum de se ipsis duos vicecomites qui tenerent ~atem civitatis et Midelsexie ad firmam sicut ante solebant Leg. Ant. Lond. 124. 2 (Sc.) sheriff. 1364 David ‥ rex Scottorum dilecto et fideli nostro M. F. vicecomiti [MS: vicecomitati] Regesta Scot. 333 (cf. ib. rub.: littera inibicionis regis ‥ ad vicecomitatem de Dubertan). 3 (Sc.) sheriff's district, sheriffdom. 1424 cum pertinenciis intra baroniam nostram de Tybaris intra ~atem de Dumfries (Ch. Dunbar) N. & Q. 4th S. VI 91; 1468 de dicto comitatu infra ~atem ExchScot 540.

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