sheriffship

Lovat therefore lost his sheriffship and his independent company, and tried to attach himself to

A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang 1878

Ramsay's grand-uncle, the old Sir Alexander Ramsay, died in 1806, neglecting to make the provision which he had intended for his grand-nephew, but leaving his estates to his nephew, Edward's father, who then gave up his sheriffship (in which he was succeeded by Adam Gillies), and being a Whig and of Whig family, accepted a baronetcy from Mr. Fox, and made Fasque his home for the short remainder of his life.

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

The hostility of Governor Andros brought the sheriffship to nothing; but the English revolution overturned Andros in 1689, and the emancipated colonies made Sir William head of the expedition that conquered

"Letters of Governor Phips to the Home Government, 1692-1693"; Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 1692

You can lend me a coat, I suppose, or something of the sort, until Strachan arrives; and just be good enough, will you, to settle with Mrs M'Tavish for the bill, for, by all my hopes of a sheriffship, I have been thoroughly purged of my tin. "

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various