Obs. [VICE-, after med.L. vicecomes.] A viscount.

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1461.  Rolls of Parlt., V. 477. Henry late Erle of Northumberlond, William Vicecount Beaumont [etc.].

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1633.  T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., III. xvii. (1821), 658. John Barry, brother to the Vicecount.

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1655.  Digges, Compl. Ambass., 367. The Vice-Count of Turayne, a Gentleman very dear unto Monsieur.

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1673.  Phil. Trans., VIII. Ded. To the Right Honourable Richard Lord Vice-Count Ranalaugh.

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  So † Vice-countess, a viscountess; hence † Vice-countess-ship. † Vice-countile a., viscountile.

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c. 1624.  J. Williams, Lett., in Cabala (1654), 79. A strange Creation passed of late, of a Vice-Counteship of Maidenhead, passed to the Heires Males, who must be called hereafter *Vice-Countesse Fynch.

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1685.  Broadside, Coronat. James II. (T. Newcomb). Vice-Countesses, Four a-Breast.

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c. 1630.  Risdon, Surv. Devon (1810), 13. The *vicecountile jurisdiction was hereditary.

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