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vicecomitatus [vicecomes+-atus] 1 district or territory of vicecomes: a (of vicomte); b (of sheriff, in post-Conquest England and Wales); c (transf., applied in retrospective use to pre-Conquest administrative district, cf. shira); d (Sc., of sheriff). a Falesie vero ~um ‥ impetravit Ord. Vit. XI 22 p. 236; c1160 in meo redditu ~us mei Rothomagensis Act. Hen. II I 349; 1195 de firma ~us Rothomagi RScacNorm I 153; 1230 ei reddemus de ~u Lemovicensi per integrum jura sua Pat 393; 1427 Houtoft in Normannia in ~u Dauge Reg. Cant. II 398.  b c1070 in ~u Lincolniae (Ch. regis) MonA III 499; contigit ‥ in ~u Æstsexsse Herm. Arch. 7; 1080 Willelmus ‥ rex ‥ omnibus vicecomitibus in quorum ~ibus abbatia de Ely terras habet Pl. Anglo-Norm. 24; 1141 ego Matildis ‥ Anglorum domina do et concedo Gaufrido de M. ‥ ut sit comes de Essex’ et habeat tertium denarium ~us de placitis sicut comes habere debet in comitatu suo in omnibus rebus Mandeville 89; s1191 resaisina ~us Lincolnie fiet Girardo de Carnvilla R. Howd. III 137; ad quatuor milites qui tunc ‥ ~um Suthsexie regebant Chr. Battle f. 87v.  c TRE ~us de Waruuic cum burgo et cum regalibus maneriis reddebat lxv li. DB I 238ra.  d c1168 prohibeo firmiter ne servientes mei ~us de Berewic alias habeant consuetudines ‥ quam servientes mei aliorum ~um meorum habent Regesta Scot. 67; c1185 intra ~um de Perth BBC 217; 1325 nos dedisse ‥ H. de Rosse ‥ totum ~um et burgum de Crumbachy (Ch. regis) EHR XXVI 329; 1418 ~um de Drumfrees Melrose 512 p. 499; 1469 pro vi j rynmartis ~us de Fores ExchScot 640; 1539 infra ~um de Beruik Kelso I Pref. p. lv. 2 office or dignity of vicecomes: a (of vicomte); b (of sheriff, in post-Conquest England and Wales); c (Sc., of sheriff). a 1199 qui ‥ ~um sibi apud Lexovium hereditario jure competere asserebat RChart 19a; 1289 avoavit se tenere ‥ a ‥ rege ‥ ~um RGasc II 313a; 1313 de pertinenciis ~us Ib. IV 1018.  b acras prati et unam vacariam ‥ quae sicut scira testatur remanserunt in firma regis quando G. ~um perdidit DB I 57vb; quidam ‥ Leofstanus nuncupatus pollens honore ~us Herm. Arch. 7; 1199 [concessimus] ~um ‥ habendum et tenendum eis et heredibus suis (London) BBC 220; 1236 non solum ‥ ecclesiasticis personis illicitum est secularis justiciarie officium exercere sed et ‥ officium ~us et quodlibet officium consimile Gros. Ep. 72* p. 213; ipse habet per cartas domini regis quicquid pertinet ad ~um Chr. Peterb. 11; cum cives Londoniarum onerati fuissent per ~um Londoniarum et Meddelsexie ad scaccarium domini regis de cccc libris MGL I 145.  c 1335 sciatis quod commisimus ‥ Johanni de Strivelyn officium ~us de Edeneburgh RScot 382b. 3 shire court (cf. comitatus 5); b (transf., applied in retrospective use to a pre-Conquest shire-moot). dicit se hanc terram deplacitasse coram regina Mathilde in presentia iiij ~uum DB I 238rb; dicit ~us quod de una quaqua hida terrae ‥ DB I 174ra; 1289 in regio tribunali et etiam in ~o [sic] vestro et alibi Reg. Wint. I 187.  b a1275 beatus Aethelwoldus ‥ Leofsium in jus protraxit ‥ convenerunt iterum ad Northanmtune et congregata ibi tota provincia sive ~u coram cunctis iterum causam supradictam patefecerunt Lib. Eli. II 11.

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