Eyre
.Justices in Eyre. A corruption of “Justices in itinʹere.” At first they made the circuit of the kingdom every seven years, but Magna Charta provided that it should be done annually.
Justices in Eyre. A corruption of “Justices in itinʹere.” At first they made the circuit of the kingdom every seven years, but Magna Charta provided that it should be done annually.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.