eyre

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.

noun

1. (UK, historical)A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)

   “The fact that the Surrey veredicta are uncancelled, and indeed their very survival, can doubtless be explained by the suspension of the eyre in June 1294, when consideration of the crown pleas had barely begun;”

   “None of the original veredicta survive for this eyre, but one of the best surviving examples, and the only one so far to be printed, comes from the Wiltshire eyre which began in the southern eyre circuit at Wilton on the same day as the 1281 Derbyshire eyre began at Derb, and which provides a valuable insight into the nature and contents of the lost Derbyshire veredicta.”