Before the days of Duke William, the Norman conqueror, Adlington formed part of the demesne of the Saxon Earl of Mercia.
Cirencester (Cirneceaster, Cyrenceaster, Cyringceaster) is described in Domesday as ancient demesneof the crown.
Half a mile outside the town he climbed the demesne wall and crossed an angle of the deer park to the Castle.
There is the longer way by the great avenue which leads through the demesne and is remarkable for its fine rows of beech trees.
Picnic parties, horse shows, cricket matches, and the chase of the fox all find a place in this romantic demesne in their proper seasons.
It is very surprising that there is not more demand for country houses in England when one considers that an extensive demesne may be rented at a price which is paid for a small flat in unfashionable Kensington.
After leaving the stately pile of Hatherop Castle and Williamstrip Park on the left, the Coln flows silently onwards through the delightfuldemesne of Fairford Park.
From the foundation of the Castle until now, the family of Warwick, in some of its ramifications—or usurpations—has been in occupation of the demesneand is still represented in the direct line of succession by the present owner.
The trees on this demesne are the finest I have so far seen in Ireland, beautiful and vigorous pencil-cedars, ilexes, Scotch firs, and Irish yews.
Since last night I have travelled from one extreme to the other of Irish life--from the desolation of the Rosses of Donegal to the grandly wooded, picturesque, and beautifuldemesne of Baron's Court.
In each manor the lord would have been affected more than all the rest by the scarcity of labour, in respect of the extensive demesne or home-farm managed by his bailiff.
You did away the toll that was levied on the knights that passed by, and you lay in the castle that demanded it of them that passed through the demesne thereof.
Is it you," saith the Knight of the Galley, "that hath trespassed on my demesneand taken down my knights?
But even when the demesne was still being managed for the lord, it had already become necessary in some cases to allow one man to hold two or more of these portions, for the productivity had so declined that one was no longer enough.
Even if it were possible to form an accurate estimate of the average yield of demesne land, then, we should have an over-estimate for the average yield of ordinary common-field land.
The demesne land was worn out, and did not repay costs of cultivation; the bond land was worn out, and the villains were too poor to "buy" their labor.
In this low productivity of the land is to be found the reason for the conversion of much of the demesne into pasture land, as soon as the supply of servile labor failed.
The leasing of the demesne has been attributed to the direct influence of the pestilence, which by reducing the serf population made it impossible to secure enough villain labor to cultivate the lord's land.
The declining productivity of the soil not only affected the villains, but reduced the profits of demesne cultivation.
No accurate estimate of the average yield even of demesne land can be made, however, on the basis of the few entries regarding the yield of land which have been printed.
The lord had only to meet the expense of food for the laborers during the few days when they were actually at work plowing the demesne or harvesting the crop.
As long as the demesne was cultivated for the lord, it was to his interest to prevent the concentration of holdings in a few hands, unless some certain provision could be made to insure the performance of the labor due from all of them.
If, as was probably the case, the product from these demesne strips was so small that the land was fit only for conversion to pasture, the pecuniary interest of the lord was to be served best by enclosing it and converting it.
From that time no general revenue could be taken from the whole realm without a breach of the law, though the king still continued for some time to raise tallages, or special payments, from the tenants of his own demesne lands.
On the demesne there is one plough and 6 villeins, and 5 bordiers with 7 ploughs.
And the King wills, that in his demesne lands and woods, within his forest and without, the roads be enlarged as aforesaid.
How many and what demesne manors the King has in his hand in every county, as well, to wit, of ancient demesnes of the crown, as of escheats and purchases.
Among clumps of trees at the northern boundary of the demesne we lighted upon the little antique parish church.
My business was to make partition of a small property, including a house and demesne to which they had, a long time before, succeeded as coheiresses.
I was curious to learn something about Barwyke, which was the name of the demesne and house I was going to.
In demesneis half a carucate, and 18 villeins[5] and 9 bordars.
In demesne is 1 carucate, and 13 villeins, and 2 bordars with one plough.
The whole of the demesne comprises ten acres, the principal part of which was obtained by purchase, and the rest by grant from the manorial owners and town's people.
Anyway, whatever was between them, the Major gave my father the title-deeds of this house and the demesne in security for what he had borrowed.
Larry, in the course of the visit that he never failed to pay to the Mangan household, had placed the demesne of Coppinger's Court at the disposal of the ladies of Cluhir, as a scene for the entertainment.
Alternatively, it was suggested, an arrangement might be proposed, whereby the house and demesne of Mount Music might be accepted in settlement of the sums in question.
It is the month of the Mother of God, and in the fair demesne of Coppinger's Court, Heaven had truly visited the earth, and was chiefly and specially manifest in the Wood of the Ownashee.
How convenient that he died within the boundaries of the demesne of a friend by whom he was venerated, and to whose house he was always welcome!
There is a long avenue through the demesne for about half a mile from the station, crossed then at right angles by another, which leads to the grand entrance; this avenue Father Ignatius went by.
It is not to be supposed that the Norman baron, when he had received his fief, proceeded to carve it out into demesne and tenants' land as if he were making a new settlement in an uninhabited country.
Lead works are found only upon the king's demesne in Derbyshire.
There are woods described which will feed a hundred, two hundred, three hundred hogs; and on the Bishop of London's demesne at Fulham a thousand hogs could fatten.
I have been Among them and have heard Their voices, I have seen With swift-discerning eyes Over their wide demesne Of human history.
There is not a nobleman's demesne that does not cover untold wealth in some shape or form.
At last the wicca stopped before a small, low cottage quite outside the demesne of the royal vill.
It was a large red stone mansion, standing in a demesne of very poor ground, ungifted by nature with any beauty, and but little assisted by cultivation or improvement.
When Fanny came into the breakfast-room next morning, he asked her to walk with him in the demesne after breakfast.
A belt of bald-looking firs ran round the demesne inside the dilapidated wall; but this was hardly sufficient to relieve the barren aspect of the locality.
Down the narrow strip of the lord's demesne were the little pauper mounds, like narrow boxes wrapped in the long grey grass.
The rusty iron gate in the demesne wall swung open and we passed out.
It lay behind a high wall, a narrow strip of ground, cut off from a great lord's demesne by a wood.
No, not too far when you are once a-past the demesne wall, with the ivy upon it.
Tuathal Teachtmar, king, makes a mensal demesne for High King of Tara, 19.
Mungret is finely situated on a gently rising sweep of fertile land, close to Lord Emly's beautiful demesne at Tervoe, about three miles to the south-west of Limerick.
An undoubtedly historical king, Tuathal Teachtmar, about the year 85 of the Christian era, took a portion of each of the four provinces to make a mensal demesne for the High King of Tara.
