lieutenancy

Every public office, every bench of justice, every commission of Lieutenancy, was filled with Roundheads.

He entered as a private, rose to be a sergeant, and his name was down for a first lieutenancy when he left the army.

I had a lieutenancy offered me three or four times; but that is not bread, madam—I live much better as I do.

After some years service against Napoleon, he had resigned his lieutenancy in the 44th Regiment.

Shortly after Dettingen Wolfe was appointed adjutant and promoted to a lieutenancy.