What is "captaincies"

Usage examples of "captaincies".

Our present Captaincies might be declared hundreds for the present, with a power to the courts to alter them occasionally.

But when we are come to discuss baronies and squadron captaincies, we are speaking of really large sums, far and away more gold than any officer-mess gamblers ever saw in one place at one time.

There was to be a reduction of the captaincies, a modification of the salt-tax and of the excise, the transformation of civil justice, too costly for the poor, and of criminal justice, too severe for the humbler classes.

Boatsteerers, su­ perb athletes with prospects of lucrative captaincies, were considered the most eligible of Nantucket bachelors.