shire-clerk

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. . 1990.

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