They burnt 23 of his manors which he had in those parts of Wales, with his barnes, and did what hurt they could deuise, burning or taking awaie all his writings and euidences.
Sir John Fastolf came of a Norfolk family; his people held the manors of Caister and Rudham.
The manors which were set aside from the general property of the Church to furnish his official income would, in many cases, provide for an earldom.
The royal officers were maltreated and driven off, and the king's manors plundered.
Probably more than one-third of the manorswere held by ecclesiastical dignitaries, so that anything which threatened their possessions and privileges seemed to strike a blow at the very foundations of the imperial system.
Old rights of pasture were being curtailed, and others, notably those of hunting and fishing, had in most manors been completely filched away.
In some of the manors described we find tenants called 'hundredarii.
One of the special points in such cases often is, that a guardian or his steward has been ruining the villains in the ward's manors by destroying their waynage[101].
And be it again noted, that there was no sort of difference as to revision between those manors which were in the actual possession of the crown and those which were out of it[177].
The copyholders of these manors are sometimes called tenants in ancient demesne, and land held in this tenure is said to pass by surrender and admittance.
In the Suffolk manors of Bury St. Edmund's we find the curious term lurard to designate a person superintending the hay harvest[697].
They perform all kinds of agricultural services and are subject to duties quite analogous to those which prevail in other places; we may find on these ancient manorsalmost all the incidents of servile custom.
I hope I have been able to make out convincingly that legal protection given against private lords onmanors which had been alienated was only an outgrowth from that certainty of condition which was allowed on the king's own lands.
Such agreements concern the general management of manors as well as the letting of domain land or of particular plots and rights[781].
Such being the case, there can be no wonder that one of the Ramsey manors answers to the king for ten hides, and to the abbot for eleven and a-half[495].
The rolls of ancient demesne manors present a considerable variety of types, shading off from an almost complete independence of the suitors to forms which are not very different from those of common law manors.
The court rolls of Common Law manors do not think it necessary to give the particulars about the transmission of the rod.
When he reached his manors at Swaffham, of which place he was lord, he found that the royal army was almost upon him, and that he must give battle there and then.
Sidenote: Sir Henry Wyatt deprived of seventeenmanors and his liberty, for treason.
This place, which was one of the manors of Algar, Earl of Mercia, at the time of the Norman survey, formerly had a market on Mondays.
In 1769 Dunning bought the manorsof Spitchwick and Widecombe.
Bovey was one of the manors of the De Tracy who was a principal hand in the murder of Thomas à Becket, and it is to this ambitious and turbulent prelate that the church is dedicated.
His son became a faithful servant of William, and was rewarded by him with large manors in Devon and Somersetshire.
I believe that the manors will bring the province just as much honour as anything else that I have mentioned.
And there were no large manors with ancient tower-ornamented castles.
All the manors round about London probably had churches before the Conquest, although the only one we can be certain of is that of St. Pancras, as the place is called by that name in Domesday.
Two other adjoining manors were included in the parliamentary area.
Robert de Lacy was stripped of his manors in Yorkshire; Robert Malet was driven from his lands in Suffolk; Ivo of Grantmesnil lost his vast estates and went to the Holy Land as a pilgrim.
However, many others enlisted under the banner of St Lazarus who were not leprosi; these established themselves in various countries of Europe, acquired many manorsand built fine houses[172].
Then began the famous enclosures--enclosures both of the "wastes" of the manors, and of the open cultivated fields of the manors in which all the orders of villagers had their share of tenancy.
Next year, another petition states that "pestilences and great winds have done divers mischiefs"--manors and tenements held direct from the king having become desolate and ruinous.
These numbers seem to stand for the contents of the larders in all the various manors of De Spenser.
The accounts of certain manors in Hertfordshire were headed, for thirty years after the Black Death, with a list of those who had vacated tenancies by death in that pestilence[273].
When the peasants on his manors asked to be supplied from these stores in the summer of 1234, the archbishop instructed his bailiffs to give out the old corn on condition of getting new for it when the harvest was over.
The above-mentioned manors are charged with rents from five to an hundred pounds each.
One of the first things that the Marquis of Abercorn did in the epidemic of 1817 was to call upon the subletting farmers on his manors to repair the roofs of their cottiers' cabins.
Her manors and lands descended to the son by her first husband, John Stanley, who on the 24th May, 1 Edward VI.
The manors of Clonmel, Kilsheelan, and Kilfeacle had long been in dispute between the two earls, and a thousand acts of violence were the result.
He was succeeded by his son, another John, who in 1437 exchanged the castle with Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, for other manors in Northamptonshire, the reason for which exchange is not known.
The original holders of the Saxon manors and estates in Warwickshire suffered severely at the hands of the Norman invader; and the pages of the Domesday Book afford interesting evidence of how wide–spread these confiscations were.
I am informed that the custom also prevails in some of the Duchy manors in Cornwall, but I cannot at present give you the names.
Some of the details of the old services of manors are extremely romantic, and supply not a few strange chapters in local and national history.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
