As for themanorial courts, feudal relicts transplanted to America, they sprang from Lord Baltimore's attempt to build up an aristocracy like that which attended upon the bishop in his palace in Durham.
It is not, therefore, improbable that the Bury castle at this time ceased to be a manorial residence, and gradually fell into the ruinous condition in which it was seen by Leland.
It is certain that the de Bury family held land in the parish as recently as 1613, and we find the manorial rights, at the time of the "Wars of the Roses," were held by the Pilkington family.
In Maryland the great planters, in effect his barons, should live upon estates, manorial in size and with manorial rights.
Nearly seventy years afterwards we find the family still retaining itsmanorial estate in the palatinate.
The meat in the larder had all really been given to the hungry censitaires in the kitchen, except a capon from the basse cour of Tilly and a standing pie, the contents of which came from the manorial dovecote.
A few carafes of choice wine from the old manorial cellar, completed the entertainment.
During the 19th century most of the manorial rights were purchased by the local board.
Footnote 4: Prof Maitland informs me that since the appearance of his Select Pleas in Manorial Courts, he has discovered the earlier occurrence of the word 'leet' (see p.
Manorial Injunctions and Prohibitions,"76 which all inhabitants of Herrnhut must promise to obey, and then submitted a number of "Statutes" as the basis of a voluntary religious society.
We have finished the Manorial Injunctions and Prohibitions.
The local jurisdictions of the thegns who had grants of sac and soc, or who exercised judicial functions among their free neighbors, were identical with the manorial jurisdictions of the new owners.
The manorial system brought in a number of new names; and perhaps a duplication of offices.
In his manorial courts, scattered and unconnected, he could set up no central tribunal, nor even force a new custom upon his tenants, nor could he attempt oppression on any extensive scale.
Ashley, in the account of the manorial system which he gives in his "Introduction to English Economic History and Theory," "occur occasionally as early as 1240 in manors where the demesne was wholly left to tenants.
Here we have not only the public tributum converted into a manorial census or 'gafol,' but also the sordida munera transformed into manorial services.
The German tribal system and its tendency towards the manorial system 336 2.
Roman and barbarian elements combined during the later Roman rule of the provinces and afterwards in producing a complex and joint result--the typical manorial estate.
The new order has, no doubt, arisen in one sense out of both branches of the old, but neither the manorial village community of the eastern district, nor the tribal community of the west, can be said to be its parent.
The two systems, Roman and German, may well have easily combined in producing the later manorial system which grew up in the Roman provinces of Gaul and the two Germanies.
Not till both those have been examined can it be possible to judge which of the two factors contributed most to the manorial system, and to what extent it was their joint product.
It will embrace also both the German and the Roman sources of serfdom and of the manorial system of land management.
They were called 'sordida munera,' and strangely resembled the base services of later manorial tenants.
In case of dispute a court was held under the great ash tree at St. Albans, and the decision of this superior manorial court at head-quarters settled the question.
The story is this:[353]-- Towards the latter part of the last century there lived at an old manorial farm in Brittany a female farmer named Bergeret.
Hunting parties were given for the occasion in the manorial demesne, and passing processions of bedizened guests were seen.
There are many examples in England of the simple manorial hall of purely domestic type whose owners found it expedient, at some critical period, to fortify in some manner, and these additions are of the greatest interest to the antiquarian.
This was originally an embattled mansion of the fourteenth century, and gradually expanded by constant additions into an excellent example of a combined castle and a manorial dwelling-house.
The subtenants of the manorial estates and great farms (corresponding to the class of 'free tenants' in the old Feudalism).
The villeins of the manorial estates, of the great farms, the mines, and the forests.
It forms an unusually fine specimen of the old fortified manorial dwellings dating from the fifteenth century, and nowadays, alas!
The manorial mill, at which the inhabitants ground their corn, was situated below the ford, and for this privilege they paid the usual fee taken by the lord of the manor for such convenience.
When the Manorial System first emerges upon the stage of history it is recognised that two elements enter into its constitution, the seignorial and the communal; a lord and a group of dependents having rights in common.
In practice the manorial system implied that freedom of movement and choice of occupation scarcely existed.
These educational facilities thus offered by the Church might possibly be utilised by the children of the manorial officials, the steward, or the bailiff; but they would never be shared by children of gentle birth.
The decay of themanorial system was accelerated; the system of manorial farming was thrown into confusion and new methods of land tenure became imperative; the existing system of customary regulation was no longer possible.
The Manorial System may be regarded as the social counterpart of the feudal mode of government.
The stages are:-- (1) The embryo municipality is but slightly differentiated from a manorial village.
The Van Cortlandt family suffered in consequence, being at one time obliged to abandon their manorial residence; but the head remained true to the cause, and subsequently filled the office of Lieutenant-Governor with great dignity.
The break-up of the manorial system, the growth of a body of mobile labour, and of capital seeking investment, the discovery of new worlds and new markets, heralded the advent of the middle class and of the commercial age.
Decay of manorial system: emancipation of villeins: growth of industry and towns.
At Salford, no burgess was to bake bread for sale except at the oven provided by the lord, and a certain proportion of his corn was to be ground at the manorial mill.
All which, the constables excepted, are no more than servants to the lord of the manor; and whose duty extends no farther, than to the preservation of the manorial rights.
The manorial powers, which alone could preserve order, have slept for ages.
These manorial servants, instituted by ancient charter, chiefly possess a name, without an office.
These demonstrations of authority provoked the formation of 'anti-rent clubs' throughout the manorial district, with a view of acquiring a controlling influence in the legislature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manorial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: domestic; feudal; home; household; palatial; real
