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Parliamentum indoctum

which no lawyer was admitted as a knight of the shire, through the insertion of a prohibition to that effect in

Free-board, or freebord. The precise nature of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain...

the sheriff from levying any allowance for knights of the shire upon those who held lands in ancient demesne, Reg. brev.

last, to levy the expenses of the knights of the shire for attendance in Parliament. Ibid.

County [fr. Comte, Fr.; comitatus, Lat.], a shire or portion of country comprehending a great number of hundreds.

One of an English breed of heavy draft horses believed to be descended largely from the horses used in war...

A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl a territorial division usually identical with a county...

The chief officer of a shire or county to whom is intrusted the execution of the

sheriff [Old English scīrgerēfa, from scīr shire + gerēfa reeve (king's agent)] : an official of a

de shiris et hundredis, freedom from suits and services in shires and hundreds, Cowel.