But the heritors did not mean to have allowed the sort of repair that his plan comprehended.
From that time my stipend has been on the regular increase, and therefore I think that the incoming of the heritors must have been in like manner augmented.
Many of the heritors considered me a blackneb, though I knew it not, but went on in the course of my duty, thinking only how best to preserve peace on earth and goodwill towards men.
But for all that, the heritors spoke of me as an avaricious Jew, and made the hard-won fruits of Mrs Balwhidder's great thrift and good management a matter of reproach against me.
Many a meeting the session had on the subject; and the heritors debated, and discussed, and revised their proceedings, and still no money for the needful work was forthcoming.
Kingship is abolished there; vassalage and slavish feudal institutions are swept away; heritors are freed from military service.
But they cannot now force the poor heritors to throw down their spades and flails, and carry spears for them.
It was there ordained "that there be a school settled and established, and a schoolmaster appointed, in every parish not already provided, by advice of the heritors and minister of the parish.
We have before us an interesting document, the invitation of the elders, parishioners, andheritors of Lairg, to the Rev.
It has been found that the heritors of each Township hold directly of the Crown, only paying the Scat, or Norwegian land-tax, and other duties to his lordship, used and wont.
The guardianship of the churchyard belongs to the heritors and also to the kirk-session, either by delegation from the heritors, or in right of its ecclesiastical character.
It is the duty of the heritorsto allocate the churchyard.
The presbytery may interfere to compel the heritors to provide due accommodation, but has no further jurisdiction.
In Scotland the obligation of providing and maintaining the churchyard rests on the heritors of the parish.
And when heritors chanced to be pretty equally matched, there was sometimes an unpleasant contest as to who was entitled to the precedence in having the first bow.
This same Laird of Logan was at a meeting of the heritors of Cumnock, where a proposal was made to erect a new churchyard wall.
I am assured that this bowing from the pulpit to the principal heritor or heritors after the blessing had been pronounced was very common in rural parishes till about forty years ago, and perhaps till a still later period.
In 1727 Mr Smith, minister of Gairloch, got the heritors of the parish to erect churchyard dykes.
A sum of £1000 was allowed him by the Assembly, and the heritors or proprietors of the parish provided a manse with garden and glebe, and erected churchyard dykes.
In 1728 a manse and glebe were provided by the heritors for the minister of Gairloch at Achdistall, near where the Gairloch hotel now stands.
The Commissioners of Teinds had ordered one church to be built near the present site, but the heritors of each of the united parishes did their best to evade complying.
I came not from Ayr till after eleven in the forenoon, and went to Balagen, with forty heritors against night.
It was possibly he who brought back the information which, on the next day, the 19th of March, caused the Convention to issue an order for the heritors and militia of Edinburgh and Linlithgow to assemble and ‘dislodge’ Lord Dundee.
Chalmers and his party, mainly to abolish the patronage of livings, then in the hands of certain heritors or patrons, who might appoint any minister they wished, without consulting the congregation.
The heritors marvelled a little at the strange request, but, glad of being saved from the cost of a new building, authorised the buying of some sturdy joists to prop up a wall that the minister averred was off the plumb.
To spite Mr. Rogers, the heritors determined to deprive him of a good view, and directed the St. Andrews builder to erect the new manse down in the valley on a broad bank by a burnside.
We would very likely be deprecated as not being legal subjects, and the heritors would all know that we were not convenient parties to give land to.
For a long time after the passing of the Act, we kept on the old system of quartering and paying the paupers through the session fund, and so on, and the heritors generally contributed a certain amount yearly to meet any balance due.
With regard to management: the election of the teacher is vested in the heritors (the sole rate-payers) and minister of the parish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heritors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
