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" The countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery held the office of hereditary sheriff of Westmoreland, and exercised it in person. At the assizes at Appleby, she sat with the judges on the bench. "
The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England ... - Page 326
by Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, F. Hargrave - 1823
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 1

Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...by, a female ; for " Ann countess " of Pembroke had the office of hereditary sheriff of Westmorland, and " exercised it in person. At the assizes at Appleby she sat with the "judges on the bench." Harg. Co. Lin. 326. (2) The election of the sheriffs of London and Middlesex was granted to the citizens...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 5

Books - 1822 - 384 pages
...Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery, had the office of hereditary Sheriff of Westmoreland. At the assizes at Appleby, she sat with the judges on the bench. — Vide Bull, notes to Co. Litl. — A woman may be of the homage in a customary Court ; and even...
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The Ecclesiastical Law, Volume 4

Richard Burn - Ecclesiastical law - 1824 - 608 pages
...been duly elected; and therefore there ought to be judgment against him. Str. 1114. (5) Thus Anne, countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery, had...assizes at Appleby she sat with the judges on the bench. Harg. Co. Lit. 326. I. Visitation of the sick. II. Communion of the sick. III. Departing out of this...
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A Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the ..., Volume 3

Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1836 - 772 pages
...hereditary sheriff of Westmoreland, and VOL. in. 59 \ exercised it in person. At the assizes of Appleby, ehe sat with the judges on the bench. The reader will...consummate learning and perspicuity by the Chancellor D'Aguebseau (then attorney-general) in his pleading in the great cause of the duke of Luxemburgh, torn....
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A Practical Treatise on Sheriff Law: Containing the New Writs Under the New ...

George Atkinson - Bailiffs - 1839 - 524 pages
...Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery, had b^ a femalethe office of Hereditary Sheriff of Westmoreland, and at the assizes at Appleby she sat with the judges on the bench (y). The Courts take judicial notice of the ministerial officer of all Judicially counties (a). . *...
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Essays on Human Rights, and Their Political Guaranties

Elisha P. Hurlbut - Human rights - 1848 - 264 pages
...United States. The Countess of Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, had the office of hereditary Sherifi' of Westmoreland, and exercised it in person. At the...Assizes at Appleby she sat with the Judges on the Bench. In a reported case, it is stated by Counsel, and substantially assented to by the Court, that a woman...
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A Scriptural View of Woman's Rights and Duties: In All the Important ...

Elizabeth Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1849 - 390 pages
...England, the idea of woman's holding official station is not so strange as in the United States. " The Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery had the...at Appleby, she sat with the judges on the bench. In a reported case it is stated by counsel, and substantially assented to by the court, that a woman...
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Essays on Human Rights, and Their Political Guaranties

Elisha P. Hurlbut - Civil rights - 1850 - 264 pages
...station, is not so strange as in the United States. The Countess of Pembroke, Dorset and Monfr gomery, had the office of hereditary Sheriff of Westmoreland,...Assizes at Appleby she sat with the Judges on the Bench. In a reported case, it is stated by Counsel, and substantially assented to by the Court. tibat a woman...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of ..., Volume 91

Books - 1850 - 918 pages
...Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery, held the office of Hereditary High Sheriff of Westmoreland, and, at the Assizes at Appleb'y, she sat with the judges on the bench. 12. IRELAND — FATAL AFFRAY AT DOLLY'S BRAE. — A fatal partycollision occurred at a place called...
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The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A ..., Volume 2

Sir Edward Coke, Francis Hargrave - Land tenure - 1853 - 800 pages
...office of hereditary sheriff of Westmoreland, and exercised it in person. At the assizes at Applcby, she sat with the judges on the bench. The reader will...the duke of Luxemburgh, torn. 3. p. 643, and in his Requeste sur la Mouvance du Comit de Soissons, torn. 6. p. 1. & Observations tur les Fairies, torn....
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