Examples of shire

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The shire address is sometimes also used where the function is primarily or exclusively a command; for these the hybrid ter m is not appropriate.
Many symptoms point to a rude equality, and the average level of wealth was not significantly lower than in other shires.
Professors, in consequence, were often active politicians, engaging in the politics of the university burghs and sometimes holding freehold qualifications in the shires.
Gradually the burden was extended from the ports to the whole of the coastal shires, and then to inland towns and counties.
However, even the inland counties might find themselves paying as much in local military taxes as they did for the subsidy; and coastal shires might well pay more.
Also in every shire one town at least, like the two latter examples, served as the focus for community affairs and local administration.
The most important point about the writ-charter is that it is addressed to - and delivered to - the shire court.
Such a document is very different from one addressed by the king to ever y shire in the kingdom.
The total expenditure varied very much from shire to shire and from year to year.
More important are the political demands, but most significant of all was local discontent at the action of royal officials in the shire.
Documents such as the coronation charter, however, would be delivered separately to each shire court by messengers sent from the king himself.
Letters under the privy seal were prepared by the thousand, and instructions were sent to the chief commissioners in each shire.
Even in a single shire one can see adjacent villages where there were differences.
The community of the shire was based on a network of acquaintance and interests, and probably drew on the contacts of individuals in local government.
In addition, there were plans to rebuild in an 'elegant style' the conduit which adjoined the shire hall.
The use of writs in the eleventh century and given to the beneficiary, who would deliver it to the shire court.
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