Noun

(shrievalties)

The office, jurisdiction, or tenure of a sheriff

*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=Clement King Shorter, title=George Borrow and His Circle, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=John Timbs, in his Walks and Talks about London'', tells us that Phillips's colleague in the shrievalty was one Smith, who afterwards became Lord Mayor: The ''personnel of the two sheriffs presented a sharp contrast. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, title=Brother Copas, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He ought to do something to make his shrievalty memorable . }}

*{{quote-book, year=1851, author=Various, title=Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=--Can any of your readers inform me the origin of the delivery of water-buckets, glazed and painted with the city arms, given to the sheriffs of London and Middlesex at the expiration of the year of their shrievalty ? }}

*{{quote-book, year=1663, author=Samuel Pepys, title=Diary of Samuel Pepys, September/October 1663, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=After discourse of this, and of supplying the garrison with some more horse, we rose; and Sir J. Minnes and I home again, finding the street about our house full, Sir R. Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the street begins to look a great deal better than it did, and more gracefull. }}