Most of the landholdersor zemindars in that country happened at that time to be women.
And these landholders were, as their small number itself shows and as is expressly stated, by no means small farmers, but respectable planters and in great part Roman burgesses!
More numerous and more solid were the Italian landholders of the old type.
Another device of the king's for binding the landholders of the realm more closely to himself, was his scheme for making knights of all persons who held estates worth more than L20 a year.
So all the great landholders of England became the king's "men," just as the villagers had become the men of the great landholders.
They complained of the rapacity of the new landholders who had superseded the old monastic bodies, and who were evicting the old peasantry right and left, and turning farms into sheep-runs, because wool paid better than corn.
There were the rich landholders and merchants, and the common people.
Aristides believed that the strength of the country lay in the landholders and in the land forces.
The results had been splendid amongst all the principal landholders in Snake's Fall and Buffalo Point.
In this way direct and active opposition from the landholders of Snake's Fall was minimized.
The landholders and farmers have long borne this oppression, we have been patient and groaned in secret, but can promise for ourselves no longer; unless relieved, madness may excite us to actions we now dread.
The landholders and farmers are more than any other men concerned in the present decision whether the proposed alteration is best they are to determine; but that an alteration is necessary an individual may assert.
All have shared in this loss, but none in so great proportion as the landholders and farmers.
It was this class which held some of the highest offices under the Muhammadan rulers of Bengal, and several leading zamindars or landholders at present belong to it.
The reason for this is no doubt that they have become landholders in the State, a position which it would not be difficult for them to acquire when their only rivals were the Gonds.
It is a settled country; the people living along in the bottom of the valley on the sides of a little stream, a garter of land only on one side and the other, filled by coarse landholders and miserable peons.
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The feudal landholders were like kings, while the resources of the King and people alike were well-nigh exhausted by the preceding struggles.
He was then made prisoner by his brother, whose reign of eight years was one succession of internal troubles caused by rebellious and powerful landholders whom he in vain tried to subdue.
Prominent Londoners sought to elevate their social position by having their family marry into rural landholders of position.
Many duties of sheriffs and coroners were transferred to county landholders by commissions.
The house,' which Lady Shelley regards as having been merely enriched by the fortunate marriages that created it, was a curiously vagrant family for a house 'holding a high position among the large landholders of Sussex.
At the close of the last century,' says this lady in her Shelley Memorials: from Authentic Sources, 'the family of the Shelleys had long held a high position among the largelandholders of Sussex.
Eight of these names are attached to towers on the outer circuit,[401] and five of them are found as landholders in Kent in Domesday Book.
His farm was a model for the emulation of all the landholders in the parish, and his products gained prize after prize at successive agricultural exhibitions.
Most of the latter were large landholders by virtue of their membership, and some of them had acquired additional blocks by purchase.
By a statute of 1633 landholders were enabled to have their tithes valued, and to buy them either at nine or six years' purchase, according to the nature of the property.
The first attempts at improvement cannot be traced farther back than 1723, when a number of landholders formed themselves into a society, under the title of the Society of Improvers in the Knowledge of Agriculture in Scotland.
We can indeed obtain no accurate statistics, but the number of landholders who were King Edward's men must have been much larger than the tale of the Norman tenants in chief.
All that we are here concerned to show is that there were forces at work which were capable of transmuting a village full of free landholders into a manor full of villeins.
The landholders are free to 'withdraw themselves' and seek other lords.
We are told of the various landholders that they hold so many carucates or so many acres.
This is the formula which prescribes how much geld the landholders of the vill must pay and it says nothing of carucates or of acres.
Yet no lament was raised by the political guides of Ireland over murdered landholders and clergymen; it appeared to be, in their sight, a just revenge.
At many county meetings such a loud and imperative call for retrenchment and remission of taxation, was made by both landholders and farmers, that the treasury-bench began to feel alarm.
It dominated English life, from the mansions of the great landholders to the cottages of the field-labourers and the tenements of the factory-hands.
Hundreds of ruined farmers and small landholderswere working as navvies at bridge and road and railway repairs.
The Mahomedans, during the period of the Arabs, never expelled or destroyed the native Gentoo nobility, zemindars, or landholders of the country.
The majority of the Neustrian mayors supported the interests of royalty, the Austrasian those of the aristocracy of landholders and warriors.
Their interests had been neglected in the Treaty of Darien,--a settlement which had inspired the landholders of the Low Country with aversion to William.
I have already recited some of the laws to preserve small holdings; I now pass to the acts meant to compel landholders to provide for those whom they had dispossessed.
Salisbury, so graphically portrayed, did not effect that radical change in the position of English landholders which has been stated.
The concentration of all the functions of sovereignty in his own hands, and the reservation of the allegiance of all landholders to himself, which strengthened his position in England, had strengthened it first in Normandy.
The Indian question persisted, non-resident landholders were troublesome, and the state would still seek grants for internal improvements, but none of these was to be long a serious impediment to settlement.
British landholders were few and the French clearings were too small to affect the hunting-grounds.
John Edgar, a native of Ireland, was one of the largest landholders who ever lived in Illinois.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landholders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
