Sheriffess

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The Lady Anne Clifford, only Daughter of George Earl of Cumberland, now Lady Clifford, Westmoreland, and Vescy, Countess Dowager of Pembrook, Dorset, and Montgomery, Hereditary Sheriffess of this County, and owner of the Honour of Shipton in Craven in Yorkshire.

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Mr. Nichols has postponed a paper of mine, in which I have greatly corroborated what you advanced concerning sheriffesses, which he tells me will appear in his next.

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There will be no impropriety, I trust, if I embrace within the limits of my toast the Lady Mayoress, and the Lady Sheriffesses—if there be such a title.

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Of course, he had stuck to his bargain, accepting the unwanted earldom, smiling and nodding to High Sheriffesses who embarked on intelligent questions about his work, judging rhubarb jam made by classes of eight-year-olds, applauding the traditional music of the Upper Gambo (nose-flute, two-stringed twanger and oil-drum flogged with bike-chain) and so on, but that didn’t make him any more suitable or credible.

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