The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown.
The island became a separate kingdom under the Crown of Aragon.
This is an office under the Crown which makes him ineligible to sit in the Commons.
It was also the title under the earlier Crown of Castile.
The term "officer of state" is sometimes used loosely of any great office under the Crown.
To leave the house between elections voluntarily, a member of parliament must accept a "paid office under the Crown".
Under the Crown is a crimson cap of maintenance, which falls to the shoulders.
He held a position of emolument under the Crown, possibly as coroner, till about 1565.
After the war, all the territories were unified as a single country under the Crown of Spain.
Between 1560 and 1650 the entire island of Falster once again came under the Crown through such transactions.