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- noun Plural form of
chiefrie .
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His grace alfo withheld the chiefries of many houfes in and about Kaikenny, their property 1 and in the town of Callan, they had houfes worth
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There are a thousand instances of this all over England, in reserved rents applied to hospitals, in old chiefries, and even among the clergy themselves, in those payments which, I think, they call a _modus_. [
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706
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