squiry

alternative squyry

1. obsoleteuncountableThe body of squires, collectively; squirarchy.

   It was nedefull for them within to make good defence, for against them was the floure of chyvalry and squyry.

   The Chronicle of Froissart

   1525, Jean Froissart, translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners, Les Chroniques de Froissart [The Chronicle of Froissart], volume 5, published 1902, page 409

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   The squiry, too, that mass of base loggerheads, joined in the resolution to support the fraud with all their might.

   1819 April 10, William Cobbett, “To the Governor and Company of the Bank of England”, in Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, volume 34, number 29, page 909

   Squire: A species of animal belonging to the aldermanic genus. Authors are not exactly agreed what constitutes the generic difference betwixt squireens (the Irish abbreviation for squire), and the next inferior order of bipeds. The Liverpool squiry are distinguished from the mobility of the town by the former selling a hundred weight and the latter a pound weight of tobacco.

   1821, John Wade, A Political Dictionary, page 105