They had also bailiffs to administer justice in their own domains, and sheriffs in every county for the same purpose, wherever grants of regality did not exclude their jurisdiction.
Diapered shield from the seal of Robert Waldby archbishop of York, 1390, for the regality of Hexham.
Diapered shield from the seal of Robert Waldby archbishop of York, 1390, for the Regality of Hexham.
Some of the earldoms had more extensive rights of regality than others, some were actual palatinates, and all earldoms originally were honours in fee heritable by the heir-general.
In punishment of his conduct, he was deprived of his jurisdiction and office, as bailie of the regality of Glenluce, and fined in the sum of £500 sterling.
It can readily be imagined that the Queen of Carthage, in her present position, both as regards her regality and widowhood would not be without suitors for her hand in a second marriage.
The lands of Balmadie are in the lordship and regality of Abernethy.
My place goes up to the knowe beside his gallows; but his Grace's regality comes beyond this, and what does he do but put up his dule-tree there that I may see it from my window and mind the fact.
The building adjoining the tower to the east was called the Regality Court-house, and had a groined ceiling.
In Scotland burghs or burrows are divided into royal burghs, burghs of regality and burghs of barony.
Burghs of regality and of barony held in vassalage of some great lordship, lay or ecclesiastical, but were always in theory or in practice created by crown grant.
I can never describe the innocent regality of his manner here,--it was something never to be imagined, that voice in that peculiar key.
