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Example sentences for "bailiwicks"

Lexicographically close words:
bailiff; bailiffes; bailiffs; bailing; bailiwick; baill; baille; bailler; bailli; baillies
  1. In 1598 the public exercise of the Catholic religion was restored, and Calvinism banished by the duke's orders over all Chablais, and the two bailiwicks of Terni and Gaillard.

  2. Beaumarchais having purchased the office of lieutenant-general of the chase in the bailiwicks of the Louvre warren (twelve to fifteen leagues in circumference.

  3. Fourteen towns of the bailiwicks of Franche-Comté form a patriotic league.

  4. In order to render the king of Poland, elector of Saxony, propitious to this design, he was accommodated with the loan of a very considerable sum, upon the mortgage of certain bailiwicks and lordships belonging to the Saxon dominions.

  5. This estate constituted one of the ten bailiwicks of the Forest as early as 10 Edward I.

  6. There were nine bailiwicks in the borough, with a bailiff appointed for each.

  7. Instead of the free preaching of the Word of God, the treaty stipulated only liberty of conscience; it declared that the common bailiwicks should pronounce for or against the Reform by a majority of votes.

  8. It was especially on Bremgarten, Mellingen, and the free bailiwicks that the Cantons proposed to inflict a terrible vengeance.

  9. My lords remain in the bailiwicks to aid the frightened inhabitants.

  10. At the same time the Reformation invaded Thurgovia, the valley of the Rhine, and other bailiwicks subordinate to these cantons.

  11. The people of the free bailiwicks are flocking to Cappel, and demanding arms.

  12. But if all this warning is of no avail, then we desire you to summon your bailiwicks on a certain day previous to the disputation, and give us notice of that day in due time.

  13. Schwyz and Uri at last consented to join the others in an attempt to carry off the food denied them, by force of arms; the Catholic landvogt in the free bailiwicks had already seized on a wagon of salt at Bremgarten.

  14. They earnestly begged the Bernese to march up rapidly through the free bailiwicks and lend them support.

  15. In the French cantons they have ruined the bailiwicks by taking bribes for sentences and appeals and doing it so scandalously, that no honest man can see or hear it without great pain.

  16. After the German Conference, which lasted eighteen days, a shorter one followed in the Latin language, for the priests of the bailiwicks of AElen and Granson.

  17. Still more confiding was the answer from Horgen: "The congregation of the people of the bailiwicks deplore that the notice and demand should be necessary.

  18. Besides, the former electors no longer exist; the bailiwicks are absorbed in the departments, the orders are no longer separate.

  19. In this province the possessions of the order were so extensive as to form twenty-four bailiwicks in Castile alone.

  20. The principal bailiwicks of England were--1.

  21. They committed the mistake of asking aid from the King of England, "promising him the immediate surrender of all the cities, castles, and bailiwicks they still possessed in Guienne and Poitou.

  22. The bailiwicks of the laender redeemed their freedom by purchase; the rest of the cantons, more generous, required no compensation.

  23. The Catholics, having lost their supremacy in certain bailiwicks or subject districts, began to dream of regaining their lost position.

  24. On the 12th of June the battle began; the calling over of the bailiwicks took place in the states-room.

  25. In the bailiwicks which Bern and Freiburg ruled jointly, Bern insisted on freedom of preaching, and on the right of the people to choose whether they would remain Romanists or become Protestants.

  26. And Jews shall not enter into a plea save before us or before those who guard our castles, in whose bailiwicks Jews dwell.


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