Thurstan had rule over the baronies of Beverley and five other places, with power to try and execute criminals, and punish thieves without appeal.
In any case, however, the divided character of the Norman baronies in England must not be pressed too far.
Temporary imprisonment of the prelates at the council, in a house together, even temporary confiscation of the baronies of some of them, did not move them, and Stephen was obliged to postpone his plan once more.
Richard clearly believed, as did his justiciar, that he was making no illegal demand, for he ordered the confiscation of the baronies of the two bishops, and Herbert of Salisbury was obliged to pay a fine.
The loudest complaints of these oppressions have come down to us in regard to Canterbury and the other ecclesiastical baronies which fell vacant after the death of Lanfranc.
Two cantreds of land, comprising the present baronies of Forth and Bargy,[276] were bestowed on him: and thus was established the first English colony in Ireland.
O'Donovan mentions, in a note to the Four Masters, that he was particularly struck with the difference between the personal appearance of the inhabitants of the baronies where they settled.
Henry, therefore, introduced the practice of making a commutation of their military service for money; and he levied scutages from his baronies and knights' fees, instead of requiring the personal attendance of his vassals.
He divided the country into baronies and districts, and gave fiefs to men of power in the land.
Vindland, as before related, and went the same winter to the baronies in Vindland which had formerly been under Queen Geira, but had withdrawn themselves from obedience and payment of taxes.
It is no proof that the kings of Scotland possessed no lands or baronies in England, because we cannot find them in the imperfect histories and records of that age.
You'll have to study the county in all its baronies and subdivisions.
They were never mere royal officials, but peers of parliament, holding their temporalities as baronies under the crown.
His daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, conveyed the baronies by marriage to Sir John Radcliffe, Kt.
Yet on evidence so obtained whole baronies and counties were declared forfeited to the Crown.
Like ancient earldoms, ancient baronies were honours in fee heritable by the heirs general.
All Baronies by writ are Baronies in fee in England, and heritable by the heir general, which means that they can if necessary devolve upon females.
Such aid was conditional upon the light railway being constructed or worked by an existing railway company, except in cases where the Baronies guaranteed dividends upon a portion of the capital.
This must be understood to mean that no new families were summoned; for the descendants of some who are not supposed to have held land-baronies may constantly be found in later lists.
Baronies were often divided by descent among females into many parts, each retaining its character as a fractional member of a barony.
It is universally agreed that the only baronies known for two centuries after the Conquest were incident to the tenure of land held immediately from the crown.
Thus the husbands of heiresses of baronies were frequently summoned, and sat as tenants by courtesy after the wife's death; though it must be owned that the committee doubt, in their Third Report (p.
Altrincham (Aldringham) was originally included in the barony of Dunham Massey, one of the eight baronies founded by Hugh, earl of Chester, after the Conquest.
When in the depression that followed the extravagance of the pyramid age the central monarchy lost its power, Egypt broke up into a series of tribal baronies (nomes).
After the Sixth Dynasty, the country was clearly in a period of economic depression; and the government was broken up into a series of nearly independent baronies corresponding roughly to the later division into provinces or nomes.
That some such settlement would have been attempted at an early period is likely, as this coast was a place of Anglo-Norman colonization, and to this movement was due the settlement of the baronies of Lecale, the Ards and others.
These original baronies expanded into a round hundred by the fifteenth century, and the list of them contains the ancestral names of the Breton nobility.
A lot was then to be drawn by the adventurers, and by some officer appointed by the Lord General Cromwell on behalf of the soldiery, to ascertain which baroniesin the ten counties should be for the adventurers, and which for the soldiers.
William of Champlitte had contrived to hew out for himself a principality in the western parts of the Peloponnesus, and had organized there a small state with twelve baronies and 136 knights fees.
Cormac, after taking his brother prisoner compelled him to acknowledge him as lord of the four baronies of Carbury.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baronies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
