The number of taverns in these ten shireswas "686, or thereabouts.
Thanne was Falsnesse fayn, And Favel as blithe, And leten somone alle segges 1200 In shires aboute, And bad hem alle be bown, Beggers and othere, To wenden with hem to Westmynstre To witnesse this dede.
The local customs were those of shires and hundreds, and shaded off into each other.
Northamptonshire and the shires near to it were for many winters the worse.
But, it may be urged, the two shires were divided by the Watling Street, the boundary (under the peace of Wedmore) of Danelaw.
Returning in this to earlier English practice, the Earl under William was to have the rule of a single shire only, or if two shires were ever set under one Earl they were at least not to be adjoining shires.
Essex and in the border shires of Mercia and East-Anglia, under the superiority of their patron Count Eustace (iii.
Dependent on these 'Five Boroughs' were the four shires of Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, and Lincoln.
Bangor is in north-Wales, and hath Caernaruon, Angleseie, and Merioneth shires vnder hir iurisdiction.
Thus had the Danes wasted the most part of [Sidenote: How manie shires the Danes wasted.
The first of these is called the Dou or Doue, it riseth about the thrée shires méere, and is as it were limes betweene Stafford and Darbishires, vntill it come at the Trent.
The names of the shires in England are these, whereof the first ten lie betwéene the British sea and the Thames, as Polydor also dooth set them downe.
Ordinary second flighters in the Shires would probably prefer the Galway "loose stone wall" depicted in Fig.
Posts and rails are often used in the Shires to strengthen decrepit fences (Fig.
For the Shires I do not think a lady's hunter should be much under 15-2, and he must be a big jumper and well bred.
Farmers in the Shires have found that hawthorn hedges make the most serviceable fences under old time regulations.
The grouping of shires round a county town as distinct from the old national shires is probably of Scandinavian origin, and so certainly is the division of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire into "ridings.
It should seem that, at this time, a journey of fifty miles through the wealthiest and most populous shires of England was as dangerous as a pilgrimage across the deserts of Arabia.
Great multitudes of people from all the neighbouring shires had come up to see the show.
Many minor variations should be remembered by those who would use Domesday Book for delicate purposes; for example, they must call to mind the merger in circumambient shires of what were once detached pieces of other counties.
We arrange the shires in the order of their indebtedness, for a few of the many caprices of the allotment will thus be visible, and our table may be of use to us in other contexts[20].
On the other hand, we must be careful not to omit from our view the rich and thickly populated shiresor to imagine or to speak as though we imagined that a general theory of English history can neglect the East of England.
Again, in the two shires last mentioned some distinction seems to be taken between the coscets and the cotarii, the former being superior to the latter[113].
There were shires or districts which from of old owed this work or work of this kind to London-bury[760].
The best illustration is given by the twin shires of Leicester and Northampton, the one over-rated, the other grossly under-rated.
Absolutely consonant they ought not to be, for we have endeavoured to include the hides that are privileged from gelding, and in some shires (Hereford, for example) their number is by no means small.
Then again, in Essex and neighbouring shires it is common to find that in the village called X there is a squire's mansion or a cluster of houses called X-bury.
In many shires we shall find that the name of each vill is mentioned once and no more.
Counsel being heard upon the subject, that incapacity was confirmed; and new writs were issued, that new members might be elected for the shires of Aberdeen and Linlithgow, in the room of William lord Haddo, and James lord Johnston.
That is, the modern shires of Monmouth and Glamorgan.
The most faithful part of Ælfred's dominions were the West Welsh shires of Somerset and Devon, with the half Celtic folk of Dorset and Wilts.
Peterborow, sometimes a notable monasterie, hath Northampton and Rutland shires vnder hir iurisdiction, a diocesse erected also by king Henrie the eight.
Of the partition of England into shires and counties.
The first of these is called the Dou or Doue, it riseth about the three shires meere, and is as it were limes betweene Stafford and Darbishires, vntill it come at the Trent.
It was at the large hop-fairs, notably that of Weyhill, to which people from all the neighbouring shires congregated, that county matches were principally arranged.
The shires of Wessex appear each to have had an ealdorman, whose duties were to command its military forces, to preside over the county assembly (scirgemot), to carry out the laws and to execute justice.
That elfish peddler likewise rested in the town, and ever he was at Wat's elbow, questioning of when the people should rise; and how many shires were already awake to these matters.
For that in so many shires where I came to preach love thou wert afore me and preached hate.
They will see his face and know him in many shires and hundreds.
Let 's wait till other shiresbe so wise and loving as Kent!
Sheriffs, hundreders, and bailiffs had to have lands in the same shires or bailiwicks [so they could be held answerable to the King].
Other professional justices, on eyre [journey], appeared periodically in all shires of the nation.
Piracy at sea or in river or creek or port are adjudicated in shires because of the difficulty of obtaining witnesses from the ship, who might be murdered or who are on other voyages on the sea, for adjudication by the admiral.
Royal judges called justices in eyre traveled to theshires every seven years.
For war, the shires had to provide a certain number of men and the ports quotas of ships with crews.
On the other hand, a custom grew up in the tenth and early eleventh century of placing whole groups of shires under the government of great earls or viceroys, whose subjection to the central government of the king was but scant.
Our counties or shires were not formed, as is popularly supposed, by King Alfred or other royal person by the dividing up of the country into portions, but were the areas occupied by the original Saxon tribes or kingdoms.
Our county maps show that the shires are divided into hundreds.
Counts were appointed to govern shires and hundreds, and, being royal governors, were elected by, and dependent on, the Frankish kings.
To curb their power the sovereign abolished the dignities of the mighty dukes, and parcelled out the land into smaller shires (than the old county divisions), and placed over these counts as royal governors with judicial power.
It was part of his plan to acquire local endowments at both universities, and also that vast clerical patronage in the different shires which was obviously destined to ensure the future of his scholars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
