Sheriff of Caithness

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title: Sheriff of Caithness
text: The Sheriff of Caithness was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order in Caithness, Scotland. The sheriffdom of Caithness appears to have been created in the mid 12th century and to have been dissolved and incorporated into the sheriffdom of Inverness in the 13th century. in 1455, William Sinclair, Earl of Caithness gained a grant of the justiciary and sheriffdom of the area from the Sheriff of Inverness. Prior to 1748 most sheriffdoms were held on a hereditary bas
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