shrivalty

English

Noun

shrivalty (plural shrivalties)

1. Archaic form of shrievalty.
   • 1689, Robert Washington, Some Observations Upon the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Kings of England:

     The Question indeed was, upon the validity of a Grant made by King Edward the Fourth, of the Shrivalty of Northumberland to the Earl of that County

References

• “shrivalty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.