The Established Church manses at Gairloch and Poolewe, and the Free Church manses at Gairloch and Aultbea, are substantial houses.
The owner of three (at a later time of four) manses was to serve; men who held but a manse apiece were to group themselves together to supply soldiers.
Boldly they make the first Christian kings bestow upon the church just about the number of manses that the church has in the eleventh century if the manse be Domesday's hide.
Still it seems to be fairly well proved that there are cases in which the x manses which the donor gives are but some of the manses that lie within the meres drawn by his deed of gift.
Thus in 674 or thereabouts Wulfhere king of the Mercians gives five manses to his kinsman Berhtferth as a perpetual inheritance.
Such language does not suggest that the manses thus given are subservient to one dominant and dominical manse or manor; it is very unlike the language of the twelfth century[1157].
The Anglo-Saxon kings are giving away half-hides or half-manses as well as manses or hides.
About this time also, arrangements were made for the erection of manses for the ecclesiastics near the Cathedral.
The sites of many of these manses can be identified from descriptions in old charters, and some of them have only been removed within the past thirty years.
While the Bishop's Castle was the centre of ecclesiastical influence, the first extension of Glasgow was due to the erection of manses for the minor officials of the Cathedral.
Even so recently as the middle of the present century, about twenty of the manses belonging to different prebends connected with the Cathedral could be identified in its immediate vicinity.
That building formed the nucleus of the original city, and the first houses in Glasgow were the Bishop's Castle beside the Cathedral, and the dwellings and manses of the ecclesiastics in its immediate vicinity.
Several mansescomposed a march; and several marches formed a pagus or district.
Country parishes contained several manses or farms of arable land, around a common pasture, where every one was bound by custom to feed his cattle.
To the Ministeris, and failzeing thairof the Reideris, must be restorit thair manses and thair gleibis; for ellis thei can not serve thair flock at all tymes as thair dewtie is.
The whole expense of the church, including what is occasionally laid out for the building and reparation of churches, and of the manses of ministers, cannot well be supposed to exceed eighty or eighty-five thousand pounds a-year.
Bishop Cameron also increased the number of prebendaries from seven to thirty-two, and ordained that they should all have manses and reside near the cathedral.
No vestige remains of the various manses of the chapter that were within the cathedral precincts.
Cathcart had a list of all the churches, and the manses of all the clergy of all shades of doctrine, in Buchan; and a pretty formidable list it made.
Cathcart might, before this, come with the list of manses and their occupants.
Cathcart was to go to Ellon and get a list of all the manses in the region of Buchan, and try to find out if any of them had been let to strangers.
I spelled out the word "Manse" and again "Manse" and later on "try all Manses near.
It was nearly three hours before the rest were in, but all with the same story; in none of the manses let to visitors through an agent, and in none if occupied by their incumbents, could the fugitives have hidden.
In the meantime I looked over the list ofManses and found that there were two which were open for letting, but had not yet been occupied, Aucheries and Ardiffery.
But there were always some craftsmen on every estate, either attached as serfs to the big house, or living on manses of their own, and good landowners tried to have as many clever craftsmen as possible.
He hoped the Lord Advocate, when dealing with the question, would also deal with those useless churches and manses which were a standing reproach to common sense, and ought no longer to be supported.
It was some years before the manseswere built, and homelessness added to poverty pressed heavily on the outed ministers.
Schools, vicarages, and manses were turned into temporary soldiers' homes.
The vicarages and mansesof the country were denuded of their sons.
And all the Lords consent that the ministers have six acres of land, except Marischall, Morton, Glencairn, and Cassillis, where manses are of great quantity.
The Act of Oblivion was passed, because some of the Lords had interest; but the Acts against adultery, and for the manses and glebes, were so modified, that no law and such law might stand in eodem predicamento.
To the ministers, and failing these the Readers, must be restored their manses and their glebes; otherwise they cannot serve their flock at all times as their duty is.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
