scyregemote

scyregemote: /shayrgamowt/ In Saxon law, the meeting or court of the shire. This was the most important court in the Saxon polity, having jurisdiction of both ecclesiastical and secular causes. Its meetings were held twice in the year. Its Latin name was "curia comitatus??"

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shire-clerk — He that keeps the county court. Shire gemot, scire gemote, scir gemot. (From the Saxon scir or scyre, county, shire, and gemote, a court, an assembly.) Variants of scyregemote (q.v.). See also shire mote … Black's law dictionary
shire-mote — The assize of the shire, or the assembly of the people, was so called by the Saxons. It was nearly if not exactly, the same as the scyregemote, and in most respects corresponded with what were afterwards called the county courts … Black's law dictionary

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