| 单词 | shire |
| 例句 | At least eighteen hands high, but not thick in the way of shire or draft horses. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It was probably the shire reeve’s horse, for above the slow clatter over the cobbles Robin could hear the grating of runners on a kind of sled the horse was dragging. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z There were dappled Percherons from France and shire geldings of tremendous size built to bear the weight of men in armor. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Those trees, I had heard, concealed every unsavory brigand and every ravenous beast of prey in the shire—until nightfall, when they ventured out upon roads such as this, in search of victims. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z From the well-known names of these towns I learn in what county I have lighted; a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Mr. Bennet and his daughters saw all the advantages of Wickham’s removal from the ——shire as clearly as Mr. Gardiner could do. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z We’ve always been a fearful little shire here that shivers when it receives foreign objects. ‘Everything was torn apart’: How director Thomas Vinterberg had to start his life all over again 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z But the shire is Tolkien's fantasy of Anglo-Saxon rural life. "Hobbit" controversy: When is casting racism? 2010-11-30T21:31:00Z The heart of Nashville is the , bluegrass shire in The Gulch. Nashville's New Flavor 2012-11-15T22:20:04.597Z Her party still genuflects to her, and a core within it — aging members of the Conservative associations in the shires and no-longer-young fogies in Westminster — reflexively venerates her. Seeing Margaret Thatcher Whole 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z My father supervised the funeral services and there were gravediggers, grasscutters and a shire horse. Experience: I grew up in a cemetery 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The 1,200 constituents who showed up for his forum — residents of Hollywood, Burbank, Silver Lake — are terrified of what’s been wrought by the faraway shires of Oshkosh, Grand Rapids, Erie and Dayton. This is California in the era of Trump 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z But what is a visit to the Hobbit House without a tour of the shire? House Proud: A Cottage Just Right for Frodo 2011-08-11T17:36:54Z Blandings continues to satisfy the English reader's nostalgia for the greenwood tree and the ancient certainties of the shires. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z It houses one of the largest art collections in Powys but the former court and shire hall needs repairs to its stonework and roof. £5m more for Victorian museum revamp 2013-09-12T11:11:55Z The property looked more like a shire in Middle Earth than an estate offering local vintages, but we walked to the wooden gate surrounded by overgrown bushes and rang the bell. A quick offseason visit to the Loire Valley, birthplace of the French Renaissance 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z A pair of orphaned racehorse foals have been adopted by a shire horse in Devon. Orphaned racehorse foals fostered by shire horse 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z “I lived in a shire,” said Kobabe, whose father and mother carved beads, weaved and sewed in a rustic community not far from this Northern California town. How 'Gender Queer: A Memoir' became America's most banned book 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Buckingham Palace said the teddies had been collected with the help of shire horses and almost 200 volunteers - and were being "well looked after". Camilla and Paddington Bears pictured as tributes to late Queen sent to charity 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z More recently, his works have also provided a fertile shire for nationalists who see themselves in his heroic archetypes. Hobbits and the Hard Right: How Fantasy Inspires Italy’s Potential New Leader 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z He is calling for the rail group to cut its ties with Labour altogether, saying the party was "more interested in trying to woo Tory voters in the shires of England than representing working people". Scottish union boss quits Labour over picket row 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Sammy the shire horse had recently lost her own foal when the thoroughbreds, whose own mothers had died, were brought into her care. Orphaned racehorse foals fostered by shire horse 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z “Water is sour, the air is lonely here / And all the noises of this natural shire / From stable or from sty are not enough,” Mr. Howard wrote in one poem. Richard Howard, Pulitzer-winning poet and translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z A giant metal box sits in a field next to the shire council: one of several air-quality monitoring stations paid for by the mining and power-generating industries. In Australia’s coal country, the mines are booming — but their costs are ever present 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z One comment simply read: "Anything that ends with shire will do me, Lincolnshire or Yorkshire." Council apologises over Yorkshire sign erected in North Lincolnshire 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The 30-year-old spent six months in a retirement village cottage when he first arrived in Quilpie this year because of the shire’s housing shortage. Australian town overwhelmed by response to free land offer 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z "They weigh the same amount as that one shire foal did when it was born, sadly dead." Orphaned racehorse foals fostered by shire horse 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z A baseball cap was a take on a horse-riding helmet alongside a flared pant with a fringed hem cleverly resembling a shire horse’s leg. Paris Fashion Week roars into its second full day 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z That makes it expensive to build housing, said shire administrator Bob Stewart. ‘Covid hit us like a cyclone’: An Aboriginal town in the Australian Outback is overwhelmed The study grouped together areas such as "London cosmopolitan" and "ethnically-diverse metropolitan living", and found these to be less likely to be lonely than poorer, post-industrial towns - but more lonely than wealthy, rural shires. Covid: Young and poor more likely to be lonely in lockdown 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z “If we could get five new families to the shire, for us that would be a massive success,” Hancock said Thursday. Australian town overwhelmed by response to free land offer 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z "It was a bit of a shock for Sammy the shire when she went out in the field and the two thoroughbreds whizzed around the field like two racehorses," she added. Orphaned racehorse foals fostered by shire horse 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Garry Keeffe, the CEO of the local shire of Northampton, says its biggest benefit will be stable work in a place where the last Australian Bureau of Statistics census put the average age at 51. 'Enormous opportunity': how Australia could become the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z “I think we all would have liked a better level of planning,” added Stewart, the shire administrator. ‘Covid hit us like a cyclone’: An Aboriginal town in the Australian Outback is overwhelmed The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies said shire district councils were set to receive an average of 45p per resident, or just 0.4% of their annual funding from the first tranche. Councils warn government bailout cash 'gone now' 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Belonging to a party is a niche hobby: the tiny electorate of white male shire Brexiteers who chose Boris Johnson were the oddest. The only way to a Labour victory may be a pact with the Lib Dems | Polly Toynbee 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z "She was used to a dopey shire and was taken aback by these foals zooming around her." Orphaned racehorse foals fostered by shire horse 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Roper estimated the cost, in lost tourism revenue, of the fires to the Alpine shire at $90m. Australia bushfires: firefighters injured amid push to contain blazes 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z The Alpine shire is 92% national park and state forest, and Roper said the fires were unlikely to be extinguished until the autumn rain began in March. Australian fires: Victorians urged to leave amid fears 'heat spike' will cause bushfires to merge 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The reality is that it now represents an awkward coalition of traditional shire Tories, free-enterprise conservatives, and working-class voters. The Future of Working-Class Conservatism in the U.K. and the U.S. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z That is why, a century after Schweppes’s innovation, to quaff a gin-and-tonic on a summer’s day, in the well-to-do shires of England, was no less nostalgic than refreshing. The Intoxicating History of Gin 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z While City players reached ever greater heights, the old Tory shire faithful were pushed to the margins. Boris ‘Teflon’ Johnson’s rise shows how our ruling classes are not fit for purpose | Aeron Davis 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z In comparison with the Trumps, Scott and Jenny Morrison, from the Sutherland shire, Australia – more latterly of Kirribilli House – look like a well-to-do couple from the suburbs. When Donald met Scott: a reporter's view of Trump and his White House wonderland 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z In the late 70s he ran away from private school, the shires and his military family’s Catholicism to make his name in acclaimed films such as Another Country and Dance With a Stranger. Rupert Everett: 'I'd have done anything to be a Hollywood star' 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The Tory shires mattered more than Labour’s industrial heartlands. The polls are clear – Labour’s Brexit tactics are failing spectacularly | Peter Kellner 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z More rural areas, described as "shire" areas, will see the biggest typical rise - up £82 to £1,826 for a Band D property. Typical council tax will rise by 4.7% 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The shire’s seneschal, Aaron Cohen, 39, helped coordinate event logistics even while keeping his cellphone stashed away in a period-correct leather pouch. The Weekend Warriors of the Crown Province of Ostgardr (Otherwise Known as New York City) 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Whatever their original EU stance, the winner will have campaigned for the votes of the ageing Brexity shire members of their small party, each contender out-Brexiting the rest with harder pledges. Theresa May’s cowardly blunder may have saved us from Brexit | Polly Toynbee 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Don’t get me started on all the changes the dash has seen: let’s just say modern Jane Austen readers may have serious concerns about the -----shire regiment. Th*nks for asterisks: the maligned punctuation enjoying Twitter revival 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z An old-fashioned notion considers tenants to be living in a rural shire under the paternal protection of a landlord. Opinion | Landlords in Montgomery County should have to give just cause for evictions 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z But the government report said the authority was "in no worse position than any other council" and was not the "most disadvantaged" shire county. The story behind the cash-crisis council 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z It is one of the society’s 20 kingdoms in North America, each of which is subdivided into provinces, baronies and shires. The Weekend Warriors of the Crown Province of Ostgardr (Otherwise Known as New York City) 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, the Northern Ireland Secretary James Broken shire said he "recognised public pressure" over the issue of MLAs' pay. Ruane resigns as deputy assembly speaker 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The world the mythical Daily Mail reader inhabits, the world that lives pretty comfortably in the shires and hankers for monocultural 1950s Arnos Grove, is always depicted in its pages as being under threat. Is the editor of the Daily Mail the most dangerous man in Britain? 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z “Radicalism flourished in Boston, Bristol, and Bengal, while fears of disorder and licentiousness provoked rural elites in both the Hudson Valley and the English shires,” du Rivage writes. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Look at the surnames of Londoners compared to those in the shires. ‘She Hasn’t Ruined Your Art, She Has Made it Relevant’ 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Her entourage is full of political nondescripts: suburban power-worshippers from the Tory shires, adrift like her in this new and dangerous situation. We need a Dump Trump foreign policy – otherwise the UK faces catastrophe | Paul Mason 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z This will be a challenging environment for the Labour Party; back in 2013 the party made substantial gains and is facing elections in swathes of safe Conservative shire areas. Labour in 2017: Can Corbyn ride anti-elitism wave? - BBC News 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Douglas shire council wants the state government to allow trained Indigenous rangers and other locals in remote areas to share that responsibility. Welcome to crocodile country: the remarkable comeback of Australia's Jaws of the north 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z The F40 group, representing councils - including a number of shire counties that had received less funding - welcomed the changes, saying they "appear to present a fairer method of funding". Big city schools hit in funding shake-up - BBC News 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The resulting 1946 New Towns Act aimed to free people from the smog and cramped living conditions of the big cities and move them into leafy, close-knit, towns in the shires. Stevenage: The town that aimed for Utopia - BBC News 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z There must be a million conversations like it in the shires - his wife told him it was either golf or her. My friend the North Korean defector - BBC News 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Within England, London — cosmopolitan, liberal, wealthy — voted for the status quo, but rural areas, from the sleepy shires to the rusting post-industrial towns of the north, chose to leave. The tea party spirit crossed the Atlantic during the Brexit campaign 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Voters in Wales and the English shires have backed Brexit in large numbers. EU referendum: BBC forecasts UK vote to leave - BBC News 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Located on the continent’s east coast, Noosa is a shire known for its abundant national parkland and numerous waterways that lend themselves to kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding and kitesurfing. Getaways for the Snorkeling Set: Luxury Homes in Bali, Tahiti and Australia 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In the English shires no single body oversees the process, says Chris Austin, a rail expert. Re-coupling 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z He now owns 37 trained horses, from elegant Arabian stallions to piebald shires and bonny Shetland ponies. Dancing with horses - BBC News 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The LGA said the transitional funding meant shire and county authorities still faced severe financial challenges and was only a "temporary measure". Council cuts: Who gets the help to cushion the blow? - BBC News 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z But in England's school system, London is the jewel in the crown, outperforming the more comfortably quilted shires. Should Ofsted get a US boss? - BBC News 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z During the mission, being a member of the band provided a rare route to escape the shire. Aboriginal Brass Band Offers Burst of Hope in a Bleak Community 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z A Bundaberg regional councillor, Tony Ricciardi, a former deputy mayor of the Isis shire council, appeared on the Seven Network’s Sunrise program last week to defend the region’s name from links to Islamic State. Welcome to Isis – have an avocado! Australian region stands by its name 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Previously, they worked with bigger and calmer shire horses. Horses boost London anti-bullying drive - BBC News 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z But, though its original ownership is a mystery, its place in the lore of the shire is well known by Tolkien fans. See J.R.R. Tolkien's Letter to Fan That Changed Hobbit Lore 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Salisbury then was enormously wealthy, a center of the wool trade, and now is a gorgeous example of the English shires that have helped keep the Conservative Party in power. Distant British Past Is Also Present for Salisbury 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The notion of separatist social democrats imposing left-wing spending plans on the "Tory shires" and forcing the UK into a dramatic shift in defence and foreign policy would be controversial to say the least. Could the SNP run 'UK plc'? 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z The election of two knights from every shire and two burgesses from the towns helped establish the two-member county constituencies that endured until the 20th Century. The turning point for democracy that gets overlooked 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z They're important to some remote communities as much as the oil and gas heartlands of Aberdeen city and shire. BP announces North Sea job cuts 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z It does not include the shire counties - or county councils - in two-tier authority areas, which also face cuts in government money. Council cuts: Who will lose out most? 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z There should not be too much wailing in the shires; when you choose to test yourself repeatedly against the best, the best are likely to show you what they can do. England struggling to close the gap 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z The Anglo-Saxon shires were designated counties - the Saxon sheriff often replaced by a Norman count. The awkward jigsaw of England's boundaries 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The reality for the East Midlands may be a tussle for enhanced powers between the cities and the shire counties. Devolution: Power to the people? 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z I’m just hoping that the next game isn’t so dour — perhaps a stealthy hobbit sneaking about the shire and engaging in hijinks. 'Shadow of Mordor' Is A Lot Like 'Assassin's Creed,' But Who Cares? 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The table below shows the change in spending power of all local authorities, including shire counties. Council cuts: Who will lose out most? 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, — The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. War Was Always Hell 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z De Montfort called two parliaments in 1264 and 1265, both consisting of knights and leading men who had been elected or chosen in the shires and major towns of England. England's first fight for democracy? 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z It houses one of the largest art collections in Powys, but the former court and shire hall needs repairs to its stonework and roof. Brecon museum revamp plans unveiled 2014-03-22T08:53:36Z Champion jockey for the last 18 seasons, the 39-year-old Irishman broke into a broad smile after driving 6-4 favorite Mountain Tunes to a narrow victory at Towcester racecourse in the English shires. McCoy joy after Irishman rides 4,000th winner 2013-11-07T18:58:48Z But away from the nostalgia and a sense of living in the shires, do boundary changes actually matter? Changing address without moving home 2013-08-01T04:05:59Z And thanks to the more than 100,000 jobs the oil industry generates in Aberdeen and its surroundings, unemployment in the city and neighboring shires is less than half the 7.8 percent national average. Aberdeen, a City With One Foot on the Seafloor 2013-07-29T01:34:01Z Several shires in Queensland are suffering from drought due to low rainfall. Bird flocks black out Australia town 2013-07-24T10:04:18Z "Where we broke through this year was in predominantly Conservative areas - after all, these were shire elections." UKIP 'is not Tory splinter group' 2013-07-07T12:42:27Z He added that council funding settlements were "fair to all parts of the country - rural or urban, district or county, city or shire". Council cuts 'risk forcing collapse' 2013-06-07T00:34:41Z Alfie befriended Tom after seeing the shire horse pulling carts with deliveries to pubs in his local area. Boy's 35-mile cycle for horse mate 2013-05-30T16:07:54Z However well Labour does in Thursday's elections, mid-term results in mainly Tory shires tell us relatively little. Labour's golden policy key? Build, build and build more 2013-04-30T06:00:13Z Like many of the so-called shire counties that go to the polls on Thursday the political map in Surrey is deepest Tory blue. Travels in search of local election fever 2013-04-30T02:24:49Z The shire in question has usually been in the east Midlands and most often . Derbyshire's deliverance offers real hope for future of the county game 2013-04-09T16:45:40Z He added: "Conservatives control far more rural and shire councils than other parties, so it is no surprise that Conservative councillors value environmental safeguards." Housebuilding sets David Cameron and George Osborne against 'nimby' Tories 2013-03-22T20:05:27Z Railing at wind farms from his perch in his favorite pub in the Kent countryside, Farage tries to articulate the fading voice of the English shires. Nigel Farage 2013-03-11T08:45:00Z The Sunday Telegraph reports a "Tory rebellion in the shires", saying a coalition of 120 rural councils are considering a legal challenge to cuts. Cameron warned of new year dangers 2012-12-30T05:52:56Z "This is a fair settlement - fair to north and south, fair to rural and urban areas and fair to shires and metropolitan areas." Warning of 'nation divided' by cuts 2012-12-30T05:09:07Z The impact on local services will not just be on the poor: Osborne's austerity programme will almost certainly hit the shires and the prosperous suburbs. George Osborne sticks to his core economic policy: blame Labour 2012-11-18T00:01:10Z It’s developed an entire ethos borrowed from The Lord of the Rings in which its employees walk around saying they are going to “save the shire.” Addepar's Software for the Super-Rich 2012-10-18T22:14:00Z And I liked the opening image of a lost vision of pastoral England: a place of shire horses, sheep and cows, Maypole dancing, home-baking and cricket on the village green. Olympics opening ceremony: the theatre review 2012-07-27T23:10:20Z Titled "Isles of Wonder", it opens with a recreation of bucolic bliss, complete with fields, hedges, sheep, geese, a shire horse, shepherdesses and even a game of village cricket. Bells peal across Britain as Games get under way 2012-07-27T10:36:29Z Inspired by William Shakespeare's "The Tempest", it opens with a recreation of bucolic bliss, complete with fields, fences, hedges, sheep, geese, a shire horse, shepherdesses and even a game of village cricket. All eyes on London and spectacular Games opening 2012-07-27T00:10:21Z They were all too busy singing country airs from the shires and getting themselves killed in Europe with that dreadful old Uncle Tom, Richard Sharpe. Why does an uprising revolt so many Brits? 2012-07-07T23:06:00Z These are the roundheads: the civil servants, farmers, unflashy yeomen and women of the shires who piece together the business and social fabric of the nation and diligently maintain it. Banks, drugmakers and arms dealers are the new face of our piratical past 2012-07-07T23:06:11Z If it is pre-industrial revolution, will we be enthralled by be-smocked, forelock-tugging yokels, shire horses and the squire and his lady, completed by a facsimile of a thatched hovel and appropriate agricultural odours and noises? Letters: Sheep, chickens and the Tor - but where are The Wurzels? 2012-06-13T20:00:01Z The bunting is up and pork pies ordered across the "shire towns", says the Financial Times, as people prepare to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Eurozone, Eurovision and Jubilee 2012-05-26T05:26:45Z A good ruler of her house? doubtless; but when Chaucer met her the house was ruling itself somewhere at the “shires ende.” Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Certainly, there are those who once ensconced in a shire—say, in Buckinghamshire—remain there as long as they need a seat. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z The alderman or shire councillor gives purely honorary service, and relieves the State Government of a vast amount of worry and expense. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z Not many miles from my place in S—shire, there is a seat belonging to some connexions of my own. Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas 2012-04-21T02:00:22.650Z Now, however, we have been called to repress what are called risings in the northern shires; and our task has been to ride at large unarmed mobs and charge down masses, whose grape-shot are brickbats. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z The diocesan limits show that part of the shire was included in the West Saxon kingdom. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Former princes, even in the most perilous wars, had raised ship-money only along the coasts; it was now exacted from the inland shires. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z But if any one will visit the shires of Dorset, and Devon, and Hampshire, he will find the same result. Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature 2012-03-29T02:00:13.900Z That name, which hundreds of years has made this shire famous in me and my posterity, runs out.” William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground 2012-03-29T02:00:13.153Z "Capping all non-subscribers is pretty generally resorted to, this season, not only in the shires, but also with provincial packs." Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field 2012-03-17T02:01:06.070Z As a shire Hertfordshire is of purely military origin, being the district assigned to the fortress which Edward the Elder erected at Hertford. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z With a population of about 5,000 persons, the time for division into shires or counties was at hand. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z I do hear that the boy's to be brought there for safety till the shires are quieter. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The upstanding fences, although lower than those in the shires, are pretty high if you look at the depth of the ground from which you take off. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z During one of my visits to London, some years since, the Duke of —— invited me to run down with him, for a few days, to his magnificent estate in ——shire. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z From this city the Danes carried destruction into the southern shires. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z It may be noted that, though these units were designated as shires in the Act of the General Assembly creating them, they were, after that, always called counties. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z We are newly come from the London homes of George Eliot and her grave on the Highgate hill-side, and now, as we traverse sweet Avonvale, we gladly remember that Shakespeare's shire is hers as well. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Of course the old days were better when they found themselves leading "The cream of the cream in the shire of the shires." Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z It is easy to see in this connexion how great an importance we must assign to the constitution of local Courts: the shires, hundreds, and townships are not mere administrative divisions, but political bodies. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The customary route of the Danish vikings followed the Frisian coast to the south-eastern part of England, the shires of Kent and Sussex. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z This is the only original shire from which no other county was formed. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z Moreover, the way in which he, like a Norfolk or Suffolk man, speaks of shires, points to a liver in a non -shire. The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' 2012-02-14T03:00:27.797Z 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.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Thirteenth-century law evidently makes the contrast between Kent and adjoining shires more sharp than it ought to have been, if all the varieties within the county were taken into account. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z To Bath came the magnates of the south-western shires led by Ethelmer who was apparently ealdorman of Devon; they took the oaths that the conqueror prescribed and gave the required hostages. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z Accomack, the eighth shire, like York County, showed the vitality of the colonists in pushing settlements away from the vicinity of Jamestown into uncharted wilds. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z These commissioners gave warrants in their turn to the minister and elders of each parish in the shire, to examine parties suspected of witchcraft, and to frame a ‘dittay’ or indictment against such persons. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Witenagemot, wit′e-na-ge-mōt′, n. the supreme council of England in Anglo-Saxon times, composed of the bishops, the ealdormen of shires, and a number of the king's friends and dependents, the king's thanes. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The inference would be, that the names in the beginning apply to people burdened with suit to the hundred and to the shire, and therefore exempted in other respects. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The Throndelaw was a group of "folks" or shires about the Throndhjem Firth, a region that had developed considerable solidarity and in one sense was reckoned as the heart of the kingdom. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z In 1636 that part of Elizabeth City County lying on the south side of Hampton Roads became a separate entity under the name of New Norfolk, a name probably derived from the English shire. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z He repeats the common rumour that there is scarcely a town or village in the shire but has one or two witches in it. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z The first stopping-place was Geelong, on the sheltered coast of Port Phillip, once a rival to Melbourne for the honour of being the capital of Victoria, now a marine base, and prosperous shire town. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z The Danish shires and Kent could not but exercise a certain influence on the adjoining counties. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z It seems that the chiefs quite generally obeyed the summons; of the leaders in the northern shires Einar Thongshaker alone remained at home on his estates. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z The name derives from the English shire, Northumberland. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z She bethought her of that pressing invitation to the south of France, an invitation from Pamela who looked on the shires as the only wintering-place. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z To this day they call boys from Norfolk “Norfolk Dumplings” in the neighbouring shires. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Before the union of the shires of Ross and Cromarty, it was the county town of Cromartyshire, and is one of the Wick district group of parliamentary burghs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z When Nidaros was reached, the eight shires of the Throndelaw were summoned to meet in a grand assembly, the Ere-thing, which met on the river sands at the mouth of the Nid. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z Northumberland Divided In 1651, that portion of Northumberland lying on both sides of the Rappahannock River was divided and a new county, called Lancaster from the English shire of that name, was formed. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z This procedure at first took place in the head burgh of the shire, where the jury probably knew enough to make a fair valuation of the land. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Still, the feudal courts could not engross the legislation for the excellent reason that the quick-witted Conqueror had preserved the Witanagenot and the courts of the shire and the hundred to check the barons. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z I lived in Dedham, the shire town of Norfolk county, and was secretary of a Whig club there. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z It was a leisurely sail, we are told, with frequent landings and conferences with the yeomanry, especially, no doubt, in the shires where no assemblies had been summoned on the northward journey. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z Though named for the English shire, the spelling of the Virginia county has always omitted the "e" the English Surrey uses. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z What changes greet my wistful eyes In quiet little Bramble-Rise, Once smallest of its shire? A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Hampshire was among the earliest shires to be created, and must have received its name before the revival of Winchester in the latter half of the 7th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z In the centre of the shire occurs a belt of tenacious yellow clay on a tilly subsoil which is not adapted for agriculture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The area varied at different periods; but the earlier Danelaw seems to have comprised fifteen shires. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z The name is in honor of an English shire. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z My Castle was a gay retreat In Air, that somewhat gusty shire, A cherub's model country seat,— Could model cherub such require. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z But, meanwhile, Ralph had fallen into a large fortune, and found himself possessed of rich estates, and a splendid old mansion in —shire, England. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z Broadly speaking, the northern half of the shire slopes gently to the coast, and the southern half is hilly. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z In the shire courts ruled the chiefs of the dreaded Danish host, chiefs who had probably harried those same shires at an earlier date. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z The name Middlesex is for the English shire, doubtless the birthplace of many early residents of the Virginia County. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z But I certainly have been no whit offended by cider, either in divers English shires, including very specially those which Burton does not include, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, or in Normandy. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Frank smiled, his thoughts just then wandered away down to a certain shire in Wales. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z Limestone is found throughout the greater part of the shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z To others the terminal shire is appended, which tells us that they were shorn from a larger domain—shares of Mercia or Northumbria or some other of the great English kingdoms. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z Sussex took its name from the English shire. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z It was thus a poor place, especially for one like Sally, who had been better educated than probably any one else of her class in the whole shire; and the wages were poor. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Gloucestershire probably originated as a shire in the 10th century, and is mentioned by name in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1016. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z He afterwards established the 'Manchester Courier,' which he for some time edited, and was well-known in the northern shires. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z Nor can it be called a shire, for Cornwall was a territory to itself. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z The fourth county formed in 1754 was Hampshire named for the English shire. How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation 2012-03-16T02:00:20.963Z A quiet, staunch, useful man in shire and church and all the relations of life, and "as good as they make 'em." Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Hans Odegaard had gone out as a young man from the hamlet of Odegaard in Bergen's shire; people had taken to him, and he was now a learned man and a strict preacher. The Fisher Girl 2011-10-13T02:00:46.980Z I found he came originally from my own shire of Banff, and that he was now minister of a church in Falkirk. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The two extraordinary lovers, Plotwell, and Underplot; there are so many of their resemblance in this great town, that we may call them knights of the shires, who represent them all. Three Hours after Marriage 2011-10-10T02:00:20.823Z "Send forward one section," it said, "in close support of the 2nd Battalion ——shire Regiment, to the advanced position previously prepared in J. 12." Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z The Mappa mundi contains a useful description of England shire by shire, giving in particular a list of the castles and religious houses to be found in each. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z Quite late in autumn, among the mountains in Bergen's shire, where the land is sheltered and fruitful, there are occasionally days almost like summer. The Fisher Girl 2011-10-13T02:00:46.980Z It was the folk moot of the shire. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z In the early part of January, 186-, I forget the exact day and date, one of the most fierce and terrible snowstorms that old men ever remembered, swept over the northern shires of Scotland. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Many a life was lost in that terrible storm, which will long be remembered in our shire. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z Hold your shire horses, say the current management, no decisions have been taken and talks with the Association of British Insurers on Monday show it is behaving responsibly. Call for more time at M&B 2011-08-22T19:33:08Z All folks believe within the shire 150 This story to be true, And they all run to Spindleston, The cave and trough to view. English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) 2011-08-12T02:00:17.607Z The place might be a bit taken out of any shire town of the British home island, were it only a little more cleanly and less unsavory; still it is more English than West Indian. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z As Europe's energy capital, Aberdeen city and shire is the ideal location for the EOWDC. Wind farm planned near city beach 2011-08-04T23:35:31Z In his time Kent and Sussex ceased to be ruled by their own ealdormen, and these shires, together with Surrey, were ruled by the archbishop with the authority of an ealdorman. The English Church in the Middle Ages 2011-08-01T02:00:14.773Z As with the "Manchester School," so with the term "Manchester men," it is used with a geographical indefiniteness; as when we speak of any one belonging to a shire instead of a town. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Lincolnshire stands pre-eminent among the English shires for inspiriting records of trials borne and conflicts waged for conscience' sake. The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day 2011-07-18T02:00:23.730Z In 1205 King John granted to the townsmen a charter freeing them from various tolls and customs and from the jurisdiction of the shire and hundred courts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z On my way north I stayed a few days with the Gainsboroughs at Exton, near Oakham—my first visit to the little shire of Rutland. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z The fleets with which the king and the witan sought to guard the coasts were raised by levies from every shire. The English Church in the Middle Ages 2011-08-01T02:00:14.773Z I must say, Poll, you are the best of good wives, and there isn't a mother like you in the shire. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z New Radnor, though nominally the capital of the shire, is little better; yet a few vestiges of an encompassing wall and a castle give it more unequivocal marks of former importance than the parent town. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z The bogus Twitter page depicts Mrs Bone standing in her kitchen in Northamptonshire, known by its appreciators as "the rose of the shires", in true Margaret Thatcher pose. MP fumes over fake Twitter 'wife' 2011-07-07T13:11:08Z On a certain day, not very many years ago, a hare was hunted somewhere in the hill-country bordering the shires of Montgomery and Cardigan. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z The country had been divided into shires, which later were called counties. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z It once was my habit to miss ev'ry rabbit At which I might happen to fire; I wasted each cartridge despatching some partridge To die in a neighbouring shire. The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z You will return to Falstead at once, I suppose," he went on, after a short pause, "marry the girl of your heart, and settle down to shire life. The Kidnapped President 2011-06-23T02:00:29.120Z The far-off isles of the sea were represented by men from every shire, and Britain’s mixed heritage in the East sent a bewildering variety of types. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z The word firma is thus used of the composition paid by the sheriff in respect of the dues to be collected from the shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z But that era ended when the team of shire horses was retired in 2001. Last orders in Leeds for Tetley's 2011-06-17T05:58:31Z This worthy Franklin bore a purse of silk Fix'd to his girdle, white as morning milk; Knight of the shire, first justice at th' assize, To help the poor, the doubtful to advise. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical 2011-06-08T02:00:20.907Z There he joined a neighbour in his shire, Richard Burbage, who subsequently became the renowned actor of the future Shakespeare’s creations; and likewise Thomas Green, his townsman, and no inferior actor and poet. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Mr. Coke was formerly a captain, in the Scots Fusiliers, and was widely known as a breeder of shire horses. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Canadian breeds 'tis best to pair With breeds from the shire of Ayr, They thrive on our Canadian feed And are for milking splendid breed. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z "It has no towns," Boyle says of the shire. Array of Hope: Australia and South Africa Vie for Massive Radio Telescope Project 2011-05-09T17:15:00.260Z Neither let any attempt to plant a human foot upon the soil of the newly-divided shires and counties, partitioned though they be into the mystic likeness of the twelve tribes of Israel. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The island of Rossie and the Bell Rock belong to the shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z His shorthorns obtained wide celebrity, and his shires were equally well known. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Worthy of either song or story Are the shires round frith of Moray, Here lies the valley of Strathspey, Famed for its music, lively, gay, Elgin cathedral's 'prentice aisle Is glory of that ruined pile. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z For all that, it is surrounded by scenery as retired and rural as can be found in the shires of England—the charming scenery of Kent. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z In another hour he was in the midst of the great metropolis, with no thought of ever again returning to the green Chiltern Hills, or the shire of Buckingham. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Precisely when the shire became known by the name of the county town has not been ascertained, but probably the usage dates from the 16th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z By holding an open court in all the shire towns, they had given to every man on the island, however poor, an opportunity to explain his grievances, if he had any. History of Prince Edward Island 2011-04-16T02:00:17.027Z Simon de Montfort, who had laid the foundations of the House of Commons by summoning representatives of the shire communities to the Mad Parliament of 1258, had by this time engrossed the sole power. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z In addition to those staying at the Hall, there were others specially invited for the occasion—of course, the first families of the shire, who dwelt within dining distance. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z There was a broad Saxon face, and a tongue unmistakably from the shire of Somerset. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z FORFARSHIRE, or Angus, an eastern county of Scotland, bounded N. by the shires of Kincardine and Aberdeen, W. by Perthshire, S. by the Firth of Tay and E. by the North Sea. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z There was nobody in the shire could spin such fine yarn as Dame Frostyface, but she spun very slowly. Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times 2011-04-12T02:00:26.413Z The subdivision of England into shires or counties does not appear to have assumed a definite form till the time of Alfred. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z It is, perhaps, essentially a shire for the prosperous, the whole in body and mind; it has little to give, beyond what it receives. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z The elite of at least half the shire is present, and Miss Linton, who is still the hostess, reigns supreme in fine exuberance of spirits. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Yes, Stubbs, this morning you have had before your eyes not only the most beautiful woman in the shire of Bucks, but, perhaps, the loveliest in all England. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z At the breaking out of our so-called, but miscalled, “Great Rebellion,” in the belt of shires bordering Wales, the Royalists were in the majority; perhaps not so much in numbers as in strength and authority. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Hugh Allan, who was also destined to be prominently identified with the commerce of Montreal, had been born about six months previously, at Saltcoats, a few miles to the northward, and in the same shire. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z But Cambridgeshire, 'of all England the shire for men who understand,' in its quiet, restrained way gives. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Glyngog House is one of those habitations, common in the county of Hereford as other western shires—puzzling the stranger to tell whether they be gentleman's residence, or but the dwelling of a farmer. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z So might have thought Walter Wade, who, after long absence from this his native shire, now, gazing on its wood-embowered hills and valleys recognised the mise en scène of his boyhood’s home! The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Returning to the times of England’s greatest glory, and the shire of Hereford, this, though strongly Royalist, was not wholly so. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z She was loyal to the backbone; she considered the Woodridges the best family in Yorkshire, or any other shire. Fast as the Wind A Novel 2011-03-22T02:00:19.407Z There are moments in some lives when it is the only shire that will do. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z He is unaware that Wingate though born on the Wye's banks, as he has told him, is comparatively a stranger to its middle waters—his birthplace being far up in the shire of Brecon. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z To its eternal glory be it told, nowhere was this noble spirit more eminently displayed than in the shire of Bucks—nowhere, in those days, was the word liberty so often, or so emphatically, pronounced. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Those of the shires bordering Wales were no better than bridle paths, generally following the routes of ancient British trackways, regardless of ups and downs. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z It came again—the horrid creeping shadow—poor wretch, I'm rather sorry for it now—just in the old way—quite as much at home in ——shire, apparently, as in the Castle. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z The belief in fairies has not yet gone out in this remote shire, and we have been in an old house said to be haunted by the ghost of a cow. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z An' they believe it in the shire o' Pembroke. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z In truth, it is a right fair land, this same shire of Bucks—lovely in its spring-tide, fair in its summer bloom, and fairer still in its October. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Hereford was at the time a centre of distinction, full of gentry from the surrounding shires; above all, abounding in the feminine element, with many faces reputed fair. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z The supreme council charged a prime mandarin, who ordered a sergeant, who commanded four shires of the country, to seize me and bind me with great ceremony. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Labour traditionally dominates poorer urban constituencies, and the Tories the shires. Ministers don't see plight of jobless, says TUC 2011-03-16T00:01:03Z Nowhere in England—perhaps nowhere in Europe—is the autumnal foliage more charmingly tinted than on the banks of the Wye, where it runs through the shire of Hereford. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z She was endowed second to none in the shire; for a separate property was hers, independent of the estate of Bulstrode. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z For as the defeated one had suffered utter annihilation, the western shires, now overrun by the Royalists, were completely at their mercy. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z One peer said last week that if shire Tories knew how endangered their local post offices were by this bill they would be dreading their next election campaign. Peers must challenge the government's risky plan for Royal Mail 2011-03-14T07:00:09Z Out of the seventy royal burghs in Scotland no fewer than eighteen are situated in the shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Luck, too, in his having no intimacies here, or, I believe, anywhere in the shire of Hereford. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z An occasion, even more joyful than then, has called together the friends of Sir Marmaduke Wade; in which category might be comprised every honest man in the shire of Bucks. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Scores of such still stand throughout the shires of the marches, and in perfect repair, to commemorate the architectural skill, or rather the absence of it, which distinguished our ancestry in the Tudor times. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z In 1386 the people emphatically marked their approbation of him whom kings had delighted to honour, by electing Chaucer to parliament as a knight of the shire for Kent. Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I 2011-03-12T03:00:27.327Z FIFE, an eastern county of Scotland, bounded N. by the Firth of Tay, E. by the North Sea, S. by the Firth of Forth, and W. by the shires of Perth, Kinross and Clackmannan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z As the "job" was done in a distant shire, there has been nothing heard of it in that where he now resides. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z The loveliest woman in the shire—to his eyes, in the world—had declared to him her love, and vowed eternal devotion. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z But the western shire entitled to highest honours for its action in this grand throe of the nation’s troubles was undoubtedly Gloucester—glorious Gloucester. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Christmas was near at hand; but notwithstanding that nearly everybody who had a country house, or an invitation to one, was away in the shires, London was by no means empty. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z The shire is well suited for fox-hunting, and there are packs in both the eastern and the western division of Fife. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Mrs. Wingate is herself of Cymric ancestry, originally from the shire of Pembroke, but married to a man of Montgomery, where Jack was born. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z These delights are better known in the provinces than the shires, and to descend from flights of fancy to practical matters of £ s. d., we can hunt in the former at comparatively trifling expense. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z Looking at the allegiance of the respective shires to the two parties that divided the nation, one cannot help observing the wonderful similitude of their sentiments then as now—almost a parallelism. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z This is a shire town, and a court is in session here, which brings many distinguished members of the legal profession to the place. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z North British railway possesses a monopoly in the shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z No shire than that of Hereford more addicted to the joys of the Harvest Home; this often celebrated in a public and general way, instead of at the private and particular farmhouse. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z If he can afford it, and likes to spend a season or two in the shires for the last superlative polish, let him go and welcome! Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z Many of the common people, especially on the Gloucester shire side, were otherwise disposed, and among the gentry were several noble exceptions, as the Kyrles, Powells, and Hoptons; and noblest of all. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z How many Priests then may we think this man did save by his endeavours in the space of seventeen years, having laboured in all shires and in the chiefest Catholic houses of England? The Condition of Catholics Under James I. 2011-03-09T03:00:42.087Z When my grandfather was a young man, and ane o' their herds, they had a' the principal store-farms o' Ettrick Forest, and a part in this shire. The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) 2011-03-05T03:00:28.153Z But for the accident of their sitting and voting together, the burgesses and knights of the shire would also have formed separate estates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z And why have you left your home in ——shire? The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z The local customs were those of shires and hundreds, and shaded off into each other. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Wherein assuredly the providence of God, and His sweet disposition was plainly to be seen both towards the good Father himself and all the Catholics of that shire. The Condition of Catholics Under James I. 2011-03-09T03:00:42.087Z But three days had elapsed, when a traveling-carriage drove into the outer yard of the convent of the Nuns of the Visitation in —— shire. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Almost as soon as she appeared out cubbing she became the most discussed person in the shire. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z These two years correspond with the years in which these Blake sisters claim their father lived with their mother in a North of England shire. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z If this unthinking cut is forced through, every part of the country will suffer from shire to city. Rally against youth service cuts 2011-02-12T05:16:10Z A soldier and statesman of the ability and ambition of Richard of Warwick counted hundreds of such adherents, scattered over twenty shires. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Glyngog House is one of those habitations, common in the county of Hereford as other western shires—puzzling the stranger to tell whether they be gentleman’s residence, or but the dwelling of a farmer. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z A second Act gave power to Commissioners to perambulate the whole realm and divide it into shires as they thought convenient, without further reference to Parliament. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z If there had been in every shire of England but one solemn library for the preservation of those noble works and preferment of good learning in our posterity, it had been yet somewhat. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Another likely victim is dear to Clark as a Labour man, and gaining the campaign allies at the opposite end of the spectrum from the shires is important. Cameron faces the other countryside alliance in Grizedale forest 2011-01-28T19:05:47Z The one satisfactory outcome was the establishment of the Council of the North, which gave the shires between the Border and the Trent a stronger and more efficient government than they had ever had before. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z As the “job” was done in a distant shire, there has been nothing heard of it in that where he now resides. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z A sort of parliament containing knights from a dozen shires had been summoned in 1295; boroughs appear to have been represented first in 1310. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z Yet he knew not what to apprehend; suspense, however, becoming wholly intolerable, he resolved to set out immediately for ——shire. Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-01-26T03:00:28.110Z He denies he has penalised industrial areas, such as Middlesbrough, at the expense of relatively well-heeled shires and suburbs. Outspoken mayor hits out at local government cuts 2011-01-19T08:00:01Z It was to be some forty years later that the first appearance of elected shire representatives at the Great Council took place. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z He is unaware that Wingate, though born on the Wye’s banks, as he has told him, is comparatively a stranger to its middle waters—his birthplace being far up in the shire of Brecon. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Ireland, conquered, now became shire land, at least in contemplation of law. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z The commissioners gave warrants in their turn to the minister and elders of each parish in the shire to examine suspected parties and to frame an indictment against them. Bygone Church Life in Scotland 2011-01-14T03:00:48.713Z What a famous room for a galop! it will hold the whole shire. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z He raised his banner, and was hastily crowned at Scone on the 25th of March; by that time the rising had burst out in many shires of Scotland, but it was neither unanimous nor complete. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z No shire than that of Hereford more addicted to the joys of the Harvest Home; this often celebrated in a public and general way, instead of at the private and particular farm-house. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z At more than 18 hands, Daz was a thoroughbred crossed with a shire horse. My waistline for a horse 2011-01-08T00:05:15Z Immediately thereafter he was commissioned to search the south-western shires for those who had taken part in the insurrection. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z I have evidence, however, that in Pembroke, Cardigan, and Carmarthen shires, the custom did not cease on the date named, and there is every probability that it prevails to-day. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z He declared that all pardons issued since 1387 were invalid, and imposed heavy fines on persons, and even on whole shires, that had given the lords appellant aid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Mrs Wingate is herself of Cymric ancestry, originally from the shire of Pembroke, but married to a man of Montgomery, where Jack was born. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z What a wonderful shot that is by Master Ian Bell of the shire of Warwick - a pull shot to a Siddle ball that got big on him but is middled and hit down for four. Ashes: The third Test 2010-12-17T10:19:16Z The highlands of the shire afforded retreat to the persecuted Covenanters, who, at Sanquhar, published in 1680 their declaration against the king, anticipating the principles of the “glorious Revolution” by several years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z It's no good if it's pulled by a shire horse. Claims Five: Most memorable lines from 2010 2010-12-10T10:00:00Z After this the war went on interminably, without complete advantage to either side, Stephen for the most part dominating the eastern and Matilda the western shires. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z An’ they believe it in the shire o’ Pembroke! Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z The Rugby Football Union is rightly keen to encourage the next generation of supporters and the number of wide-eyed schoolkids suggests the allure of Test rugby remains strong in the shires. Five things we learned from England's 26-13 victory over Samoa 2010-11-20T16:25:00Z Prince Charles Edward’s ambition left the shire comparatively untouched, for the Jacobite sentiment made little appeal to the people. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Capello toured the shires in search of fresh talent and found none. World Cup 2010: England re-enact a drama of failure 2010-06-27T23:06:00Z The shire levies which had served the king so well against the feudal rebels of 1173 were reorganized, with uniformity of weapons and armour, by the Assize of Arms of 1181. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z The élite of at least half the shire is present, and Miss Linton, who is still the hostess, reigns supreme in fine exuberance of spirits. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z What a mess this fixture list is this season — and with the Test Match Group and the shire counties still at odds over the future, what chance is there of a peaceful and sensible solution? County cricket - Live!|David Hopps, Mike Selvey, Vic Marks and Richard Rae 2010-06-04T10:09:00Z Other buildings worthy of notice in Durham are the town-hall, a 16th-century building reconstructed in 1851, the police station, and the guildhall, the shire hall and county buildings, and the county hospital. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Either a third or half of seats at 78 of England's shire district councils will be contested. In the shadows 2010-05-01T10:47:00Z The French fleet landed in great force in Sussex, burnt Rye and Hastings and routed the shire levies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Luck too, in his having no intimacies here, or I believe anywhere in the shire of Hereford. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z In the years that followed, others too would find success in the shires. Stopping county adventures of Indian players makes no sense | Dileep Premachandran 2010-04-02T12:46:00Z Portions of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which connects with the Clyde at Bowling, and was opened for traffic in 1775, pass through the shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Out in the shires the mood is again turning mutinous after a season that has fallen short by virtually every measure. England's 'Mad Dog' Lewis Moody leads assault on French grand slam hopes 2010-03-20T09:00:00Z He summoned a parliament, in which four knights elected by each shire were present, to establish the new constitution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Nowhere in England, perhaps nowhere in Europe, is the autumnal foliage more charmingly tinted than on the banks of the Wye, where it runs through the shire of Hereford. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Child casualties The report looked at road casualty reduction figures in England by studying statistics in three geographical groupings - urban, rural and central shire counties. Road safety targets 'need reform' 2010-03-01T03:21:00Z Though in sympathy with the Covenanters, the town was the scene of few incidents comparable to those which took place in the northern parts of the shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z It formed the intermediate between the shire and the hundred. Cathedral Cities of England He made a complete end of the old English system by which great earls ruled many shires: there were to be no Godwines or Leofrics under the Norman rule. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z He had seen all the tearing fellows of the day—the three-bottle men at the October Club, the young blood of the shires who rode into the gap at Blenheim. A Cursory History of Swearing To give some organization and training to the levy, the several sheriffs had authority to call out the contingents of their shires for exercise. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The shire is under school-board jurisdiction, and some of the public schools earn grants for higher education. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z A sketch of the shire and the hundred is treated in the description of Wells. Cathedral Cities of England This particular feudal danger was avoided: where earls were created, and they were but few, their authority was usually restricted to a single shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Hospital songs, ditties well-known at Bartholomew’s and Guy’s; poaching songs that bore the flavour of the honest shire of Somerset; pieces from the comic operas; all were given with the utmost good-humour and vivacity. A Cursory History of Swearing The shire is one of those where the crofting system exists, but it is by no means universal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" In this charitable expectation the good men of the shire were not entirely disappointed. Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) They were at the head of the administration of justice in the shires, possessing both judicial and executive authority, and had as their officers the sc�r-ger�fan or sheriffs. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The sheriff, the original president of the shire court, was gradually extruded by them from all important business. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z Even this lovely shire," he drawled its beauty—"cannot, so it would seem, be free from scandal. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode The mountains are so many as to give the shire a markedly rugged character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" In some shires in England, he had to be hung at last himself, else the power of possessing a hangman lapsed from the town. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days The shires were divided into hundreds and tithings, the latter consisting of ten heads of families, who were jointly responsible to the State for the good conduct of any member of their body. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli He took away from London some of the exceptional privileges which his grandfather had granted, such as the free election of sheriffs of Middlesex, and the right of farming the shire at a fixed rent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z At their door the justice of the peace, the knight of the shire, the great man of the neighborhood, dismounted from his horse, and had his chat with mine host. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Pre-eminently Argyll is the shire of the sportsman. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" For England's the one land, I know, Where men with Splendid Hearts may go; And Cambridgeshire, of all England, The shire for Men who Understand; And of that district I prefer The lovely hamlet Grantchester. 1914 and Other Poems The other kingdoms—Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Kent, Sussex, and Essex—surviving as shires and counties. A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland It was they who had to see that the shire court, and in minor affairs the hundred court, did not allow cases to slip away into the jurisdiction of the feudal courts of the baronage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z The other chief buildings of the town are the shire hall built in 1842 in the Doric style from designs by T.H. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" My father was of good family, and possessed a large estate in ——shire. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I "As much as you are," said the Scot, "but all the same we shall dine with him, or my name is not Rollo Blair of Blair Castle in the shire of Fife!" The Firebrand He represented the borough of St Albans in the two last parliaments of Charles II. and was knight of the shire from the revolution till his death. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" He even farmed out to them the charge of the taxes of the whole shire of Middlesex, outside the city walls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z This of itself seems almost a decisive argument to prove that they must have joined in the election of knights of the shire after the Confirmatio Chartarum. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 One morning, many years ago, whilst sitting idly in my chambers in town, I received a letter from Baron —— to come down for a few days to his country seat in ——shire. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I No happier home for the vulpine deity exists among the shires of England! Ayala's Angel Now it was an old custom in feudal times that the course that a king took, in passing for the first time through a district or a shire, should become ever after a public highway. Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands He was backed by his kinsmen and many other barons, but proved unable to stand before the king, who was loyally supported by the English shire levies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z They were the aggregate of representatives from the courts-leet of each shire and each borough, and elected by the juries to present the grievances of the people and to suggest their remedies. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 But she had sent away the Boy, with his beautiful castles in the air, and places in the shires. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days Barry Links, a triangular sandy track occupying the south-eastern corner of the shire, are used as a camping and manoeuvring ground for the artillery and infantry forces of the district, and occasionally of Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" They have gradually mustered into cavalcade in coming up from the shires to the metropolis, one excepted—the Poet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 The villein must sue in his lord’s manorial courts, but he is also subject to the royal courts of hundred and shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z In 19 E. II. there were twenty-eight members returned from shires who were not knights, and but twenty-seven who were such. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Nor shall any be put in assizes or juries, though they ought to be taken in their own shire, that hold a tenement of less than the value of twenty shillings yearly. An Essay on the Trial by Jury The first mention of the shire in the Saxon Chronicle records the valiant resistance which it opposed to the invaders in 1010 when the rest of East Anglia had taken ignominious flight. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" It retains its old mansions and homesteads and the wide margin of its ways to a fuller degree than other villages in the north of the shire. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield The “palatine” earls of Chester and Shrewsbury were not only endowed with special powers and rights of jurisdiction, but were almost the only tenants-in-chief within their respective shires. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z This was in 1539; it is not to be imagined that a knight of the shire a hundred years before would have rivalled even this scanty provision of moveables. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 There was one at every gate, who witnessed purchases outside the walls; and there was one, higher than either,—the high sheriff,—who was probably the reeve of the shire. An Essay on the Trial by Jury The country was divided into shires and hundreds on the English model. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Kintyre is a peninsula on the extreme south of the shire of Argyle, in length about forty geographical miles. The Cruise of the Elena or Yachting in the Hebrides The archdeaconry was coextensive with the shire, and was divided into five rural deaneries at least as early as 1291. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" He was a person of considerable culture and influence, and Sheriff and Knight of the shire for Warwick. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West So, since that time, he wanders shore and shire, An old, poor, wandering man, with glittering eyes Helping distressful folk to their desire By power of spirit that within him lies. King Cole He had heard people talk as if America were about as large as one English shire, and settled principally from their own villages. Discussion on American Slavery The word was first introduced after the Norman Conquest as the equivalent of the old English “shire,” which has survived as its synonym, though occasionally also applied to divisions smaller than counties, e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" In the sweet shire of Cardigan, Not far from pleasant Ivor Hall, An old man dwells, a little man,— 'Tis said he once was tall. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes What would he say if he saw a hunting-breakfast in the shires? A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June To their conventions came commissioners from all parts of Scotland, but mainly from the southern and western shires, as well as from the Merse, and out of the bounds of Fife. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Miss Rattle "Is knight of the shire, and represents them all." Coelebs In Search of a Wife The county was from an early period regarded as a community, and approached the king as a corporate body, while in later times petitions were presented through the knights of the shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Part of the parish extends across the Clyde into the shire of Renfrew. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Buckingham is as pleasant a shire as a man shall see on a seven days’ journey. Devil Stories An Anthology It was strange to think, that he who should blow them again into a flame had once been a Prelatist, and that from the wicked shire of Fife. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway The former—it is, by the way, the only royal burgh in the shire—boasts a considerable antiquity. In the Border Country 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. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" While he lived at Somerleaze he rarely missed Quarter Sessions, speaking seldom, but valuing the opportunity of taking part in the rule of the shire. Studies in Contemporary Biography Most of the schools in the shire are under school-board control, but there are a few voluntary schools, besides an exceptionally well-equipped technical school in Alloa and a well-known academy at Dollar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" And more so in the shire of Dumfries than in Galloway, where the muirs are broader, the King's arm not so long, and men more desperately dour to drive. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Not content with the cruelty of these executions, some even of the peasantry, though these were confined to the shire of Mid-Lothian, pursued, captured, plundered, and murdered the miserable fugitives who fell in their way. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Petitions now poured in from almost every shire in Scotland, and the Bill had unfortunately to be withdrawn. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles I was born and educated in the house of my uncle, Mr. Middleton, one of the wealthiest squires in D—shire. Ellen Middleton—A Tale It is the seat of the county assizes and quarter sessions, and has a handsome shire hall; the county gaol is near the town. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" An intimate and practical acquaintance with most of the fences in "the shires," and all the leading statesmen of Europe, can hardly be considered compatible with a morbid disposition and superstitious nature. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 But it appeared he was due at the public-house where we had met, on some affairs of my great-uncle the Count, who had an outlying estate in that part of the shire. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) The packman’s ghost too is no unusual spectre in many of our shires. Old Roads and New Roads I. The sheriff is an officer of very great antiquity in this kingdom, his name being derived from two Saxon words, shire reeve, the bailiff or officer of the shire. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First On the splitting up of Mercia in the 10th century the dependent districts along the Dee were made a shire for the fortress of Chester. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" In London, but perhaps more especially in "the shires," his face was well known and liked. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 It developed into one of the original Virginia shires in 1634. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 People who lived in the midland counties were spoken of as living in the shires. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a county or shire. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First How many homes were burned to make you lord Of half a shire? Collected Poems Volume Two In that age public executions were signals for general holidays; people flocked from the most distant shires, decked in best attire, to witness the doing to death of some poor malefactor. The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts This shire, a decade later, became a county. The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624 An uncle, an aunt, and two cousins from the south—a Mr., Mrs., and two Misses Sympson, of Sympson Grove, ——shire—came down upon her in state. Shirley But to return to our qualifications; and first those of electors for knights of the shire. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First At a small town in ——shire lives a decent honest woman, who has for more than forty years gained her livelihood by washing in gentlemen's families. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order He eyed her solemnly and said that if she were minded to wed this roaring boy they might both, and soon, earn fortunes to buy them land in a distant shire. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court What changes greet my wistful eyes In quiet little Bramble-Rise, Once fairest of its shire; How alter’d is each pleasant nook, The dumpy church used not to look So dumpy in the spire. London Lyrics It seems that Nunnely Priory is shut up—that the family are gone back to their place in ——shire. Shirley That all knights of the shire shall be actual knights, or such notable esquires and gentlemen, as have estates sufficient to be knights, and by no means of the degree of yeomen. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First Every borough and shire which had not already secured candidates hastened to do so. Name and Fame A Novel Of jumping, such as jumping is supposed to be in the shires, he knew nothing. Marion Fay Those who aimed to 'quench the smoke of cottage fires' had sent a regiment of soldiers into this shire to cow the Highlanders into submission. The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba The rooms were named Devonshire, Somerset, Norfolk, respectively, for the shires of Old England. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance But elections of knights of the shire must be proceeded to by the sheriffs themselves in person, at the next county court that shall happen after the delivery of the writ. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First I can only wish for it the largest possible number of readers in the shires and elsewhere, since to read it is inevitably to be moved to active sympathy. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 The toilers of the deep that go forth on the waters from these seaboard shires are serious and moral men. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Their dialect is exceedingly pleasing—a good deal more so than that of many other parts of Scotland; shires and district vary in dialect quite after the manner of our own localities and counties. Adventures and Recollections In consequence, returns have p. 92been made from nearly the whole of the shires, either by the Sheriff, or his substitute; generally addressed to George Miller, jun. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies All folks believe within the shire This story to be true, And they all run to Spindleston The cave and trough to view. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI She had the development of an Amazon and the fresh face of a girl from the shires of England. The Tale of Timber Town Anyone who has travelled in the shires that run along the Cheviots and the Tweed, will conclude that poetry and romance may ever find a home there. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland In England, the "assizes" were sessions of the justices' courts which met, generally twice a year in each shire, for trial of questions of fact in both civil and criminal cases. The Fairfax County Courthouse A large number can be found in what may be called Robin Hood’s home-counties, Yorkshire and those which touch Yorkshire—Lancashire, Derby, Nottingham and Lincoln shires. Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series The municipal unity was of the same kind as that of the shire and the hundred. Memorials of Old London Volume I She had over her arm a purplish water-proof, and her thick, solid boots could defy the mud of her native shire. In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series Not long ago my work took me to Tarbolton, a quiet, uneven village in the heart of the queenly shire of Ayr. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Why send into Lincoln and the shires when Middle the Tinker will do this business for you, gossips? Robin Hood Elections of knights of the shire shall be made in each county by people dwelling and resident therein of whom each has free-hold to the value of �40 by the year. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Many of the present shires correspond to the old kingdoms, and bear their names to this day. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) If there had been in every shire of England, but one solempne Library, to the preservation of those noble works, and preferment of good learning in our posterity, it had been yet somewhat. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Burns will soon be read by lexicon, even in the shire of Ayr. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Often the sons and brothers of earls were sent to Parliament as representatives of the shires, and as such sat side by side with shopkeepers and artisans from the towns. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion Fotheringay is in Northamptonshire, which is in the very heart of England, Northampton, the shire town, being about sixty miles northwest of London. Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History He summoned first of all representatives of the knights of the shires, and directly afterwards representatives of the towns and the Cinque Ports, to form a Parliament in conjunction with the nobles of the realm. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) If there had been, in every shire of England, but one solempne library, to the preservation of those noble works, and preferment of good learning in our posterity, it had been yet somewhat. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Mr. James Durham was born about the year 1622, and lineally descended from the ancient and honourable family of Grange Durham, in the parish of Monuseith in the shire of Angus. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies Few knights of the shire had libraries so good as may now perpetually be found in a servants' hall, or in the back parlour of a small shopkeeper. The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books In it the county members—or knights of the shire—sat side by side with the burgesses of the towns. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Lastly came the guard, with a crowd of men from Northampton, Buckingham, and Oxford shires, all in armour, and the peers’ servants. Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution I passed through the shire once with Her Majesty on one of her 172 progresses,” remarked she. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls He was eldest son of the laird of Pitfrothy in the shire of Angus; and by the mother's side, descended from the ancient house of easter Ogle, of which she was a daughter. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies From thence our next move was to Waukesha, the shire town of Waukesha County, twenty miles by rail, to a Temperance meeting advertised for "speaking and the transaction of business." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The knights of the shire were gentlemen, who on the Continent were reckoned amongst the nobility, and despised townsmen far too much to sit in the same House with them. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Alderman in early England meant the ruler of a large district, such as a shire or kingdom. The History of London “Which of the shires?” inquired Stephen, without committing himself. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford In the meanwhile major-general Middleton came upon a certain handful of the covenanters, assembled at the celebration of the Lord's supper at Mauchlin, a small village in the shire of Ayr. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies In the same shire the largest farm in England has been thrown on the owner’s hands. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 There was, however, no method of cross-examination, and if the hundred or shire court was still unsatisfied, it had recourse to the ordeal. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Sheriff, or shire-reeve, governor of a shire, was the king's representative in each shire: he collected the revenue, called out and led the soldiers, and administered justice. The History of London Just turn in here a minute, will you?—you don’t happen to be going or sending up into the shires, do you, these next few days?” One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford I call to mind a passage with perpetuated remembrance, that in one shire of this kingdom there were about thirty ministers who cheerfully offered up their service to Christ, all by turns out of Edinburgh. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies We came from many a town and shire, From road, and street, and alley, And, filled with patriotic fire, Around the flag did rally. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition The fact that most of these shires are named from towns—as Derbyshire from Derby, and Warwickshire from Warwick—shows that they came into existence after towns had become of importance. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII The furniture from our old place in H—shire, which has been stored so long, will just suit them. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Every morning, by times, the knight of the shire, albeit exhausted from the endurance of the over-night's debate, rose up from his neglected breakfast, and posted down to his daily cell in the Cloisters. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Once started, they languished, as did Warwicktown in one of the eight original shires. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The shire was the scene of much strife after the Reformation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" This moot was still attended by the freemen of the shire though the thegns were more numerous and the simple freemen less numerous than they had once been. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Glasgow & South-Western railway owns most of the lines within the shire, its system serving all the industrial towns, ports and seaside resorts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" But the Miss Kingsburys of the smaller county towns are an especial menace to such as Flamby, although charity rarely assumes the dimensions of a vice among any of the natives of England's southern shires. The Orchard of Tears With something of nostalgia for home, they often named their plantations for the family estates in England, and the locales, in which they settled, for the shires or the communities near their old world homes. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The shires or counties of England, which have been reproduced in the United States, originated in this way, as I have briefly explained in my little book on Civil Government in the United States, p. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest The ordeals were witnessed, the weregild inflicted, and rights to land adjudged, not by an officer of the king, but by the landowners of the shire assembled for the purpose. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII A generation later William Wallace conducted a vigorous campaign in the shire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Sir Jonathan was sheriff of the county of Hertford, 17 Charles II., and knight of the same shire in Parliament, in the thirtieth of the same reign. Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. But point out any man's In all the shire, and say they lie convenient, And useful for your lordship, and once more I say aloud, they are yours. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 Even in times long before shires had been dreamed of, it is certain that the river must have been an important tribal boundary. The Cornwall Coast These meetings were ordinarily presided over by the ealdorman, who appeared as the military commander and the official head of the shire, and by the bishop, who represented the Church. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII The head is to call the body together; and for the clergy the bishops are chief, for shires their knights, for towns and cities their burgesses and citizens. Charles I Makers of History He gave to each shire and burgh long thought and minute commands. Privy Seal His Last Venture Even the best of the shire, Frank, My lord excepted: such as sue, and send, And send, and sue again; but to no purpose. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 So I made him come down with me to Englehart, that dear old country seat of my family in the Western shires which was now mine. Uncanny Tales Chester submitted, and with it the shires on the Welsh border. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII She affirmed that the L’Estranges had in old times resided in ——shire; and she further stated that her father’s family had consisted of herself and her brother, whose only child Catherine was. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales But between the old foundations which had a history and the new houses that were springing up in every shire, some feeling of jealousy and soreness was sure to arise. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 That chase took place on 2nd January, 1890, and I think it was a far higher test of ’cross country cleverness, than hunters in the shires have to go through. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Fuller thinks the Commissioners passed too many gentry for this small shire. Shakespeare's Family He now called on all the shires to furnish ships for a fleet; but he could not trust his ealdormen. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Mrs Millington, the famous huntress from the shires, was there to claim the brush. Vixen, Volume I. Richard Arkwright too will have his Monument, a thousand years hence: all Lancashire and Yorkshire, and how many other shires and countries, with their machineries and industries, for his monument! Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. His father was major in the ---th dragoons, and was one of the Randolfs of ---shire. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster But we find some in the shire, contemporary with the poet. Shakespeare's Family Edward divided the country into shires and introduced English laws and customs, and his policy of conciliation was so successful that there was but a single rising in the country for a whole century. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe Hodnet is, moreover, the market-town of the shire, and stands in rather a populous district; so that, though of small dimensions itself, it is the rallying-place, on any extraordinary occasion, of a pretty numerous population. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls The range had been successfully installed, and Mr. Gourlay was showing it to Grant of Loranogie, the foremost farmer of the shire. The House with the Green Shutters In August, 1642, the sword was at length drawn; and soon, in almost every shire of the kingdom, two hostile factions appeared in arms against each other. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 Howbeit, matters were worser in the shires and down south than up hither. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall "You'll get a bit of land just as cheap in the shires," Morris had said to him. Ralph the Heir No sooner was the new writ issued than Wilkes again presented himself as a candidate, and was again elected by the shire of Middlesex. History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 Like Northampton itself, which marches with more counties than any other shire in England, his tastes were various and his heart was large, and consequently his borderline was long. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Former princes, even in the most perilous wars, had raised ship-money only along the coasts: it was now exacted from the inland shires. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 She reckons him to be some young gentleman that she once wist, down in the shires,—marry, what said she was his name, now? Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Somewhere rises struggle sore For revisorships no more, Every shire has half a score. Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series At the close of Charles's reign the extreme Covenanters or "wild Whigs" of the Western shires had formally renounced their allegiance to a "prelatical" king. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 The member for the shire is clipped of all his plumage at the moment of his entering that colossal poultry-yard, and must take his obscure pickings with other unnoticeable fowl. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Before half-past, the tables at the Mynysnewydd Arms were filled with what the ——shire Herald termed "a galaxy of beauty and fashion." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Every city hath an equal shire, with farms thereon; and of the husbandmen, half return each year to the city, their place being taken by a like number. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics The little town of Nethermuir stands in the shire of “bonnie Aberdeen,” though not in the part of it which has been celebrated in song and story for beauty or for grandeur. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not The “Principality” now became shire land—under English laws and English administration. Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures She lived alone with a couple of old servants in a small village far in the wilds of ——shire. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 She was daughter of Roger of Montgomery, afterwards Earl of two shires in England, and of his first wife, Mabel of Bellême, who bears so evil a reputation for bloodshed and treachery. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine In all that city and shire there be scarce 500 persons that be licensed from labour, that be neither too old nor too weak to work. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Mrs Esselmont had been, in former days, one of the great ladies of the shire, and, with a difference, she was one of its great ladies still. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not |
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