rare. [f. VICEROY sb. + -DOM.] = prec. 1.
1711. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 125. To putt allwayes the Viceroydom into the hands of an Irish Catholick.
1870. Freeman’s Jrnl., 3 May, 3/1. Lord Carlisle is shown in the robes of the Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of St. Patrick, which office he held by virtue of his Viceroydom.
1878. Wilson (KS) Index, 29 Nov., 4/5. Instead of the peer promoting the wife to the peerage, the Princess raises the Lord to the Royal Viceroydom of the Dominion!
