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(UK, Ireland) Not shired, not constituted into counties; (by extension) ungoverned..
The young giant, Hugh Maguire, may have been to the Castle to complain of Miler’s hounds, for he had already written a complaint of such doings on the part of that mighty southern pluralist, who went about in armour like a man of war, and had his life-guard like the chief of an unshired country.
Connacht, and Ulster apart from the two ancient counties, were still unshired, still outside the normal action of the Dublin administration.
The last years of Rufus’s reign were critical in the assertion of Anglo-Norman, and specifically royal, control over the unshired area of what we know as England north of the Ribble in the west and the Tees in the east.
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Unshired means (UK, Ireland) Not shired, not constituted into counties; (by extension) ungoverned..
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The young giant, Hugh Maguire, may have been to the Castle to complain of Miler’s hounds, for he had already written a complaint of such doings on the part of that mighty southern pluralist, who went about in armour like a man of war, and had his life-guard like the chief of an unshired country.
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