Stretching farther along this northern shore were various large seigneuries given chiefly to officers or former officers of the civil government, and now held by their heirs.
No longer bound to their dependants by any personal tie, the seigneurs usually turned affairs over to their bailiffs, men with hearts of adamant, who squeezed from the seigneuries every sou the hapless peasantry could yield.
More settlers were brought; a few seigneuries were granted; priests were summoned from France; a new fort was built; and by sheer perseverance a settlement of about three hundred souls had been established by 1627.
Three of these pioneers of the seigneuries have been singled out for special attention in this chapter, because each prefigures a type of seigneur who did what was expected of him, although not always in the prescribed way.
Troubles which arose among the habitants in the Church seigneuries were settled amicably, if possible, by the parish priest.
The seigneurial system was also strengthened by the fact that the boundaries of seigneuries and parishes were usually the same.
On the island of Montreal was the most important of the seigneuries in the district bearing its name.
Hence it was that many of them got into debt, mortgaged their seigneuries to Quebec or Montreal merchants, soon lost their lands, and finally drifted back to France.
On the whole, however, the habitants who took farms within the seigneuries fared pretty well in the matter of the feudal dues and services demanded from them.
They went to the seigneuriesnear Montreal and Three Rivers; when the best lands in these areas were taken up, they dispersed themselves along the whole north shore of the St Lawrence from below the Montmorency to its junction with the Ottawa.
Many of the seigneurs, when Canada passed under British control, sold their seigneuries and went home to France.
With it and other distractions in existence the clearing of the seigneuries proceeded very slowly.
The others show the location of all seigneuries in the regions of Quebec and Three Rivers.
Many of the seigneuries in this latter belt had been given to officers of the Carignan-Salières regiment which had come out with Tracy in 1665 to chastise the Mohawks.
At this date there were some ninety seigneuries in the colony, about which we have considerable information owing to a careful survey which was made in 1712 at the King's request.
Another martinet gravely informed the colonial authorities that, as a protection against Indian attacks "all the seigneuries should be palisaded.
Most of the officers gradually grew tired of their rôle as gentlemen of the wilderness, and eventually sold or mortgaged their seigneuries and made their way back to France.
It was from the armed seigneuries of the Richelieu that Hertel de Rouville, St. Ours, and others quietly slipped forth and leaped with all the advantage of surprise upon the lonely hamlets of outlying Massachusetts or New York.
But not all of the seigneurieswere settled in this way, and it was well for the best interests of the colony that they were not.
But it must not be supposed that these seigneuries and small holdings grew up like mushrooms.
I can earn two such seigneuries in one year, Monsieur.
One year of her voice could earn two such Seigneuries as this.
Louis-le-Begue gave Amboise to the Counts of Anjou, and Hughes united the two independent seigneuries of the chateau and the bourg.
But the Bernois still tormented him for recognition of their sovereignty over the disputed seigneuries of Palézieux, and continued to lend him money, thus gradually and surely laying their hands on his long coveted possessions.
The regiment of Carignan-Salières was disbanded, but its officers, for the most part, elected to remain in Canada and accept the gift of seigneuries which the King distributed on conditions of fealty and homage.
Sunshine reflected from the spires and towers of the town made a beacon of hope to the peasant as he laboured on the seigneuriesleagues and leagues away.
Lorraine, in the government of his seigneuries and principalities.
In these our days, estates and seigneuries must be given to daughters of princesses, and even of ladies, by which to call them!
Two or three thousand men of British stock, many of them men of substance, had gone to the new colony; warehouses and foundries were being built; and many of the principal seigneuries had passed into English hands.
During Frontenac's first term the settled part of Canada was limited to the shores of the St Lawrence from Lachine downward, with a cluster of seigneuries along the lower Richelieu.
Along the St Lawrence from Tadoussac to the Sault St Louis seigneuries fringed the great river, as they fringed the banks of its tributary, the Richelieu.
The greater part of the inhabitants occupied the seigneuries along the St Lawrence and the Richelieu.
The rapid sketch which we have given in our first chapter of the seigneuries and communities of Central Italy may suffice to exhibit the general condition of Umbria, the March of Ancona, and Romagna as far as the Po.
Yet the tenures and investitures of these seigneuries constituted but a pseudo-feudalism, resting upon a basis entirely different from that of the barons of northern nations.
For Imbert represented to him that the partnership formed with Madame la Marquise de Guercheville was a means invented by the Jesuits to drive him out of his broad Seigneuries of Canada.
There was a wood betwixt the two seigneuries which had been haltingly claimed by Foretvert; but all through terrible Baron Garnier's time none but St. Aliquis peasants had been suffered to cut fagots there.
The list of curious corvees required of peasants on various seigneuries is a long one.
If they do not watch the roads themselves, they make bargains with professional robbers, allowing the latter to infest their seigneuries in return for an agreed share of their booty.
The war thus promised not to terminate until, by incessant raids and counter-raids, the peasants of both seigneuries had been brought to the edge of starvation.
The autumn of 1672, during which all these seigneuries were created, should be remembered in the history of New France.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seigneuries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
