I hear they have reclaimed him up at Sheriff Elvsted's--- BRACK.
He was very soon appointed to the important office of Under-Sheriff in the City, and his private practice was ere long bringing him a very substantial income.
The sheriff was summarily dismissed from his office, two hundred of the townsmen were arrested, and the mayor and bailiffs committed to the Tower.
It was also decreed that the sheriff and under-sheriff of the county should henceforth swear, on taking office, to uphold the privileges of the University.
Dunster market cross is known as the Yarn Market, and was erected in 1600 by George Luttrell, sheriff of the county of Somerset.
Abba-Mari ben Isaac, of St. Gilles, better known through his learned son, was thesheriff of the town.
There was to have been a raid of the state police on this particular saloon, for some new rule which had been made, but the sheriff quietly said the law might wait a night; as they were showing round some English ladies!
They did get there, finally, and the sheriff married them, and here his voice broke a little and was so low I could hardly hear him.
That you must tell me at once, for the sheriff blames my soldiers.
Now if the sheriff does not liberate you at my request," he said, "I will never let him hear the end of this story.
If so, one of them was that as the sheriff had told nothing, she had a story to make up.
But the light in them went out when she remembered that the sheriff was near, and she looked desperately at the window as if ready to fling herself from it.
I had heard Lord Rintoul and the sheriff discussing the contemplated raid.
The door was shut, and the sheriff was guarding it.
That story of yours about the sheriff was not true," he said at last.
Not yet, but nearly two years ago there was a similar riot, and the sheriff took no action for months.
The whole thing has been a fiasco," the sheriff was heard saying, "owing to our failing to take them by surprise.
There seems something in this, Dunwoodie," the sheriff said, "and if you cannot explain it I must keep you in custody.
The sheriff had vanished--he was nowhere to be seen--and O'Grady as a magistrate had now the command.
I, as the under-sheriff of the county, can preside at this inquiry.
O'Grady stamped and swore with rage, and calling Furlong, sent him to inform the sheriff how riotous the crowd were, and requested him to have the trumpeter seized.
Egan's address was received with acclamation, and when silence was restored, the sheriff demanded a show of hands; and a very fine show of hands there was, and every hand had a stick in it.
Then I suppose we may as well break up," said Sir Harry Blake; but the high sheriff waved his hand, while his military companion quitted the room.
The fact is this; the high sheriff and several of our brother magistrates are not quite satisfied in regard to this servant of Colonel Henry Smeaton.
The Sheriff was mystified, and looked first around him and then at the judge, in a puzzled way, to see whom he referred to.
He turned to the clerk and commanded him to enter an order immediately striking Steve’s name from the roll of attorneys practising in that court, and ordered the Sheriff to take him into custody.
It was an intellectual contest and he rejoiced in it; put into it every nerve and every power he possessed, and was ready to trample down every adversary from the sheriff who served the writ, to the Supreme Court itself.
Sit down,” said the Judge, shouting angrily to the Sheriff to restore order.
This was the consul's theory and if he had been a bookmaker at a race of wits for life and liberty he would have offered heavy odds against the plodding sheriff from Chatham County, Kentucky.
Yance thinks a lot of a pair of deuces when he's liquored up," sighed the sheriff reflectively.
Bridger conducted the sheriff out and along the hard beach close to which the tiny houses of the village were distributed.
Goree knew that the sheriff had just won a pot, for the subdued whoop with which he always greeted a victory floated across the square upon the crinkly heat waves.
The consul ushered the sheriff to the door of the room that overlooked the harbour.
I was elected sheriff of Chatham County a year after Wade Williams killed his wife.
Reeves and Morgan were his friends and pals; yet the sheriff from Kentucky had a certain right to his official aid and moral support.
Lochiel, says Drummond of Balhaldy, did not receive his copy till about thirty hours before the time was out, and appeared before the sheriff at Inverara, where he took the oaths upon the very day on which the indemnity expired.
Sky has Mr. M'Cleod of Ulinish, who is the sheriff substitute, and no other justice of peace.
This was written while Mr. Wilkes was Sheriff of London, and when it was to be feared he would rattle his chain a year longer as Lord Mayor.
The sheriff went on washing the quail, and when about halfway through the task, he halted.
In the hurry and bustle of making the camp snug for the night, every one was busy, the sheriff in particular, in dressing his bag of quail.
Before reaching the road camp, the big sheriff promised us a quail pot-pie for breakfast, and with that intent, during the afternoon, he killed two dozen partridges.
It became the property of the late Sheriff Badlam, who filled it to admiration.
Here's the young Sheriff come doon frae the Barr wi' the Fiscal to tak' evidence.
I thought a Sheriff would know everything without asking--even an ornamental one on his way to the Premiership.
The sheriff is therein directed to proclaim him on five county court days, requiring him to appear on pain of outlawry.
As this letter was written in the year that John Jermyn was Sheriff of Norfolk, the date must be 1451.
Thomas Porter was sheriff of the counties of Warwick and Leicester in 26 Henry VI.
Writs under the seal of the Court of Exchequer, which was of green wax, directing the sheriff of a county to levy certain fines.
You must deliver them in haste to the Sheriff by Paston's advice, by whom I send them.
Draft writ to theSheriff of Norwich to attach and bring before the Council John Paston alias Wortes and others for violation of the statutes of Provisors 25 Edw.
Labour to the Sheriff for the return of such panels as will speak for me, and not be shamed, for great labour will be made by Wentworth's party.
You had better come hither as soon as possible and get the favor of the sheriff that shall be next year.
The names actually returned by the Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for this Parliament were--for Norfolk, Sir Miles Stapleton and Henry Gray; for Suffolk, Sir Roger Chamberleyn and Sir Edmund Mulso.
John Jermyn was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk this year.
Bet he ain't been de sheriff o' de den no less 'en er dozen times.
You may therefore well imagine my surprise when the sheriff arrested me.
On the way from the court-house to the jail the men were taken from the sheriff by a crowd of citizens.
He introduces the high sheriff of the county to the judge of assize on his arrival, and swears in the grand jury.
Anglo-Irish politician, was a son of Sir Hugh Clotworthy, sheriff of county Antrim.
I, lying so near that I might hear him, called unto him, willing him to come unto me, for that he was always my very friend and earnest in the gospel, who declared unto me that the sheriff and a great company was sent for me.
The sheriff led him through the streets, his friend Joy "following afar off, as Peter followed Christ.
He being my very friend, desired the sheriff and his company to stay without for frighting of my wife, and he would go fetch me unto him; who knocked at the door, saying, he must speak with me.
The high constable, whose name is Thomas Joy, dwelled at the house next to me, whom the sheriff brought also with him.
Southwell, the sheriff for the year, had been among the loudest objectors in parliament to the marriage; and if Southwell joined in the rising he would bring with him Lord Abergavenny.
Sheriff enters pompously, the farmers and wives and servants flock after him.
Sheriff unrolls a parchment, that he takes from pocket of his big gown.
The citizens who were assembled, complimented the Sheriff with three cheers for the manly, determined manner in which he executed his duty.
Miss Crandall simply relates that she was arrested on the 27th, with her sister, by Mr. Cady, the Sheriff of the County, and examined before Justice Rufus Adams.
