Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiefry
Literary usage of Chiefry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List by John D'Alton (1855)
"... as son and heir of John Savage, was allowed a chiefry out of certain lands of
the same forfeiting proprietor; as was another Patrick Savage, ..."
2. The Irish Rebellion of 1641: With a History of the Events which Led Up to by Ernest Hamilton (1920)
"No -official successor to the chiefry of the county was officially nominated by
the Government, but there is not the slightest doubt that Neil Garv took it ..."
3. Monasticon Hibernicum: Or, A History of the Abbeys, Priories, and Other by Mervyn Archdall (1876)
"2d. chiefry out of a tenement, with ye appurtenances, and 2 acres and half and
ye fourth of an acre of arable in ye townland aforesaid, and held by John ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"... the queen for his forgiveness and restoration to his chiefry. Hia petition
was granted, but before the patent for his restoration arrived he had entered ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"... Carbury Barony, is allowed a “yearly chiefry of Ss. and a barrel of oats. ...
suit and service at the Mannor Court of Kilka, and a yearly chiefry of 21. ..."
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