? Obs. Forms: 5 barunrie, 6 -onrie, barronry, 5– baronry. [f. BARON + -RY; cf. late OF. baronnerie, in same senses.]
1. The domain of a baron; a barony.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. xviii. 400. Lordschipis of barunries.
1483. Cath. Angl., 22/1. Baronry (v.r. Barony), baronia.
1530[?]. Dyal. betw. Gent. & Husb., 136 (D.).
| Many noble baronries and erldomes, | |
| With esquyres landes and knightes fees. |
1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 102. When a great man carries the name of his baronry.
1736. J. M’Ure, Hist. Glasgow (1830), 182. Minister of the baronry church of Glasgow.
2. The rank or dignity of baron.
a. 1600[?]. Earles Chester, 43, in Furniv., Percy Folio, I. 274. Robert fitz Norman … in whose heyre[s] that Barronry succession had 226 yeeres.
1648. Prynne, Plea for Lords, C. By vertue of their Peerage, Baronries, and Offices.
3. The body of barons; the barons collectively.
1653. A. Wilson, Jas. I., 187. Gentlemen, who had procured those Titles, to perch above the English Baronry.
