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scirevus

scirevus [ME shirreve, scirref < AS scirrefa, scir-gerefa], elected or appointed official representing the Crown originally in a shire, (for which the more common ML term was vicecomes), sheriff; b (w. ref. to the post of under-sheriff of London). 1508 plebis tribuni quos vulgus schirifos appellat Spons. Mariae 7; creare ‥ binos vicecomites, quos vocant shryvos P. Verg. XV 274.  b 1533 quum et causas aliquot annos juvenis egisset in foro et in urbe pro shyrevo jus dixisset (More) Ep. Erasm. X 2831.

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