Also squirealty. [f. SQUIRAL a. + -TY.] a. The existence of squires as an institution. b. The body or class of squires. c. The position or status of a squire.
c. 1856. Denham Tracts (Folk Lore Soc.), I. 332. It seems to have referred to the golden age of squirealty.
1886. Ruskin, Præterita, I. xi. 351. As a rule, the best of her [i.e., England’s] squirealty passed necessarily through Christ Church.
1888. P. Cushing, Blacksmith of Voe, I. v. 144. It … went with the hall, and the crest, and the roan mare, and other notes of squiralty.
