Officium vicecomitum : The office and authority of sherifs. Written for the better encouragement of the gentry (upon whom the burthen of this office lyeth) to keep their office, and undersheriff in their houses; that so by their continual care of the business, and eye over their officers, they may the better discharge their duty to God, their prince, and country, in the execution of this thier office. Gathered out of the statutes, and books of the common laws of this kingdom: corrected and very much enlarged. By Michael Dalton late of Lincolnes Inn Esquire, and one of the Masters of the Chancery.