Obs. Also 7 lieutennendrie, lieutenandry. [f. LIEUTENANT + -RY.] = LIEUTENANCY in various senses.
1604. in Reg. Priv. Counc. Scotl., VII. 19. To command and chairge all … leigis and subjectis within the bounds of the said lieutennendrie to rise.
1604. Shaks., Oth., II. i. 173. If such tricks as these strip you out of your Lieutenantrie. Ibid. (1606), Ant. & Cl., III. xi. 39. He alone Dealt on Lieutenantry, and no practise had In the braue squares of Warre.
a. 1639. Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot., VI. (1677), 286. A Commission of Lieutenandry was given to the Earl of Angus for convocating the subjects and pursuing the Rebels.
1676. W. Row, Suppl. Blair’s Autobiog., xii. (1848), 461. He is discharged of his lieutenantry over the forces in Scotland.
