Also 6 -shyp, vycarship(pe. [f. VICAR + -SHIP.] The office or position of a vicar, in various senses of the word.
1534. Henry VIII., in Liber Regis, p. viii. Every other person that hath any dignitie, prebend, vycarship,… or other office.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. (1560), 49. The general commission, whiche he had of Sathan his great mastre, in that vycarship of his.
1579. Fulke, Confut. Sanders, 540. Ye Bishop of Ierusalem should more reasonably claime this supremacie & vicarship vnto Christ.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xii. § 66. Lewis of Bauar the Emperour sodainely … re-called his Vicar-ship or delegation, which hee had made to Edward, to exercise imperiall power in lower Germany.
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Scarlet Gown, 66. After his arrival at Rome, Cardinal Capucino paid him all the profits accruing of his Vicarship by him administred in his absence.
1677. W. Hughes, Man of Sin, III. iv. 139. If St. Peters, and so his Holiness universal Vicarship follow hence.
1739. Swift, Lett. to Pope, 10 May. There is a man in my choir, one Mr. Lamb; he has at present but half a vicarship.
1762. trans. Busching’s Syst. Geog., III. 130. The crown of Spain held the vicarship of Siena as a fief of the Empire.
1839. I. Taylor, Ancient Chr., I. 96. The universal vicarship of the bishop of Rome.
1867. R. Palmer, P. Howard, 71. He was recommended to the master-general by Cardinal Pole for the vicarship of the province.
1896. Oxford Chron., 25 July, 5/4. The Bishop of Oxford has lost no time in filling up the Vicarship of Abingdon.
