The documents which proved the rights of the great extinct Seigneury might be useless, but the limited, shrunken right of the peasant ownership was as unassailable as his mother's right to the three strings of pearls; or so he believed.
Some years later the Seigneury of Mayenne and Ernée passed to the hands of Cardinal Mazarin, who transmitted it to his niece, and gave the old château for transformation into the present church.
Robert Giffard, who received the seigneury of Beauport just below Quebec, was one of these; Charles Le Moyne, Sieur de Longueuil, was another.
Sons and daughters of the seigneurs often intermarried with those of habitants in the seigneury or of traders in the towns.
The seigneury which he acquired was one of the most dangerous spots in the whole colony, being right in the path of Iroquois attack.
Through, the influence of his brother, no doubt, he received from the Seminary a grant of the seigneury at Lachine on the river above the town, and at once began the work of developing this property.
The first grant of a seigneury in the territory of New France was made in 1623 to Louis Hébert, a Paris apothecary who had come to Quebec with Champlain some years before this date.
Habitants who by years of hard labor had saved enough to buy some uncleared seigneury strutted about with the airs of genuine aristocrats while their wives, in the words of Governor Denonville, "essayed to play the fine lady.
One busybody wrote to the colonial Intendant that a bake-oven should be established in every seigneury and that the habitants should be ordered to bring their dough there to be made into bread.
Having no other means of obtaining funds with which to equip an expedition, La Salle sold his seigneury and at once began his preparations.
He merely applied to the intendant, who was quite willing to endow with a seigneury any one who appeared likely to get it cleared and ready for future settlers.
In April[97] following, a seigneury was given to Charles d'Ailleboust des Musseaux, the judge.
In early years that countryside had been erected into a seigneury and at the time of the exploit, Madeleine Jarret's father was the Seigneur of Verchères.
Such were the conditions at the Seigneury of Verchères when the Iroquois suddenly burst upon the place.
At the same time the negotiations for the transfer of the seigneury of the island of Montreal were completed.
Zacharie Dupuis, the commandant of the town, received the letters patent of his seigneury of Verdun.
The failure of his expedition to discover La Chine was commemorated in derision by the wags of Montreal who henceforth dubbed his seigneury of St. Sulpice, as that of "La Chine.
Canada, like Normandy, had the governor and the intendant for her chief officials, the seigneury for the groundwork of her society, and mediaeval coutumes for her laws.
La Salle fulfilled all the conditions upon which he had received the seigneury at Fort Frontenac, and found financial profit in maintaining the post.
He received the seigneury of Fort Frontenac, he was made local governor at that post, and, in recognition of services already performed, he gained a grant of nobility.
No custom of the manor or seigneury could prevail against written contracts and statute-law.
That he did not make every seigneury a hotbed of petty strife was due largely to the stern hand held over him by priest and seigneur alike, but by his priest particularly.
Fronting Beauport was the spacious island of Orleans with its several thriving parishes, all included within the seigneury of Francois Berthelot, on whom the king for his zeal and enterprise had conferred the title of Comte de St Laurent.
This was given to him in the form of a large tract, two leagues square, on the south shore of the lower St Lawrence, between the seigneury of Beaumont des Islets and the Bellechasse channel.
The Sulpicians had, at the time the colony passed into English hands, an estate of about a quarter of a million arpents, including the most valuable seigneury of New France, on the island of Montreal.
In general, however, a seigneury comprised at least a dozen square miles, almost always with a frontage on the great river and rear limits extending up into the foothills behind.
Two years later this recognition came in the form of a royal decree which elevated the seigneury of Longueuil to the dignity of a barony, and made its owner the Baron de Longueuil.
They gave the habitants a choice between bringing their grain to the half-broken-down windmill of the seigneury or paying the seigneur a money fine for his permission to take their grist elsewhere.
From this identification of the parish and seigneury came some interesting results.
From seigneury to seigneury men traversed it in canoes or bateaux in summer, and over its frozen surface they drove by carriole during the long winters.
When his seigneury changed owners by sale or by inheritance other than in direct descent, a mutation fine known as the quint was payable to the public treasury.
When he came to the New World he wanted the sort of life that would keep him always on his mettle, and that could not be found within the cultivated borders of seigneury and parish.
On this seigneury the first of the Le Moynes de Longueuil lived and worked until his death in 1685.
By the terms of their tenure the habitants of the seigneury were required to appear each May Day before the main door of the manor-house, and there to plant a pole in the seigneur's honour.
Ah, dear son, how much better to leave your grandfather's petty seigneury to its fate, and heed the word of holy Peter the Hermit, who is preaching the war against the infidels.
She had a letter some months ago, for she had got restless, and a young kinsman of the Seigneur had come to visit at the seigneury for a week, and took much notice of her.
She beheld herself, young, fresh-cheeked, with life beating high and all the impulses of youth panting to use, sitting at the head of the seigneury table.
Perhaps because of his grandfather's association with the Pangman seigneury (the property of the fur trader Peter Pangman), his interest was early turned to the great fur trade of Canada, and he delved deep into its records.
In face of many difficulties he mastered mathematics and became a self-taught land surveyor, so that he was able to make the surveys of the great Pangman seigneury at Lachenaie.
You--what sort of place would you, an Englishman, have occupied at the Seigneury of Pontiac!
The loss of theSeigneury had therefore cut deep, but there had been a more hateful affront still.
The Seigneury of Pontiac belongs to Monsieur Racine, and but three days since Madame here dismissed this fellow for pilfering and other misdemeanours.
She had gone so far, she was prepared to go further to save this Seigneury to Louis.
He left the house buried in morbid speculation, and involuntarily made his way to a little hut of two rooms which he had built in the Seigneury grounds.
He was a man of strange whims and vanities, and his resentment at his exclusion from the Seigneury of Pontiac had become a fixed idea.
Truth was, Louis Racine would rather have parted with the Seigneury itself than with these relics asked for.
I did not want you to know--you loved theSeigneury so.
But upon the Seigneurywas another flag--it of the golden-lilies.
Monsieur, you cannot think that the will was concealed for profit, for the value of the Seigneury of Pontiac.
Well, there was a good lump of a fellow who had been a soldier, and he picked out a girl in the Seigneury of Beaugard to make his wife.
The influence of the lady at the Seigneury was upon him, and he himself believed it was for his salvation.
Can you wonder that this dreamer, when the Seigneury of Pontiac came to him, felt as if a new life were opened up to him, and saw a way to some of his ambitions.
He is ill, he is--crippled, he cherishes the Seigneury beyond its worth a thousand times.
These were crown roads connecting those in front and rear, also banal roads which were those leading to the seigneury mill.
Persecution in France--request addressed to the Seigneury of Basle in favour of the faithful of the Church at Nismes.
The Seigneury of Geneva shewed their sense of the zeal and indefatigable activity exercised in their behalf by the Reformer.
He stopped a little at Basle; and being called to Neuchatel by unforeseen circumstances, he wrote to the Seigneury of Geneva to excuse himself for this delay.
He endeavoured to procure from the Seigneury of Berne a prolongation of leave for the minister Viret, which they had already granted for the period of six months to the Church of Geneva.
Dismissed by the Seigneury of Berne from the Church of Orbe, Zebedee was on the point to become pastor of the Church of Nyon.
The seigneury of Berne were not disposed to favour the two banished ministers.
The citizens of Urbino had hearts of oak and frames of iron wherewith to maintain their privilege of self-government, nor was it until after a struggle of nearly twenty years that they submitted to the seigneury of Buonconte.
Within three years he merited new censures, by accepting from the Pisans the command of their troops against the Guelphs of Florence and Lucca, along with the seigneury of their republic.
Make for the big tree on the Seigneury road--you know: where you were robbed.
Or again, he could follow Nic from the Seigneury to the Manor, discover where he kept the money, and devise a plan to steal it.
The seigneury of Verchères lay upon the south shore of the St. Lawrence, seven leagues below Montreal, and from its exposed position as well as from its former tribulation, had earned the name of Castle Dangerous.
Footnote 20: Laval was the owner of the Seigneury of Beauport and the Isle d'Orleans, which by royal edict had been freed from feudal burdens.
In the early morning the habitant repaired to the seigneury to assist in erecting the May-pole.
More than two hundred men, women, and children were tomahawked in cold blood or carried off to a lingering death, the lurid flames of the burning seigneury telling their bitter tale to the watchers at Montreal.
Through his brother, a priest of St. Sulpice, he was granted a feudal fief at Lachine, and under his resolute occupation the hitherto dangerous seigneury became a strong bulwark for the trembling settlement of Montreal.
His seigneury lies on the Richelieu, a little south of Fort St. Louis, and I am sure that he would speed us upon our way.
Once past this they had no great distance to go to reach the seigneury of De Catinat's friend of the noblesse who would help them upon their way.
The Seigneury of Pontiac came to him, and I married him.
Your husband is the natural heir, and it is only just that the Seigneury should go on in the direct line.
Apart from the fact that Louis had succeeded to the Seigneury promised to Fournel, and sealed to him by a reputed will which had never been found, there was cause for hatred on the Englishman's part.
No ruler of a Grand Duchy ever cherished his honour dearer or exacted homage more persistently than did Louis Racine in the Seigneury of Pontiac.
George Fournel was the heir to the Seigneury of Pontiac, not Louis Racine.
Having subsequently passed in seigneury to the Brancaleoni of Mercatello, it was obtained, under the title partly of conquest, partly of inheritance, by the Counts of Montefeltro, in 1429.
Yes, brother Claude; but that accursed seigneury of Poligny, which people make so much noise about, is worth not sixty gold crowns, year out and year in.
But, indeed, the place of an English officer, on duty that is doubtless official, is here at the Seigneury and not at the village inn.
Meanwhile, I was serving the King by my presence, which was security that the Seigneury of Cheticamp should render no assistance to the King’s enemies at Louisbourg.
I was in sore embarrassment; and the parchment deed conveying to me the Seigneury of Cheticamp began to burn my pocket.
And presently I found myself established, an honoured yet confessedly hostile guest, in the Seigneury of Cheticamp.
The seigneury of Sorel was well peopled, for each grantee received only sixty acres and a town lot, taking the rest of his allotment in some of the newer settlements.
One of these was Sorel, where the seigneury that had been bought by the crown was granted out to the new-comers in lots; the other was in the Gaspe peninsula, on the shores of the Gulf of St Lawrence and of Chaleur Bay.
The seigneury of Sorel had been purchased by the government in 1780 for military purposes, and when the war was over it was turned into a Loyalist reserve, on which huts were erected and provisions dispensed.
Moved by the eloquence of Bullinger, the Seigneury of Zurich declared that it would lean upon God alone, and dispense with the alliance of the king.
Stolen from Viret by a faithless servant, and given to the Seigneury by Trolliet, this letter excited real commotions, the traces of which are to be found in the Registers of Council.
The Seigneury of Berne, informed of the arrest of the five Scholars of Lausanne, had written to the King of France to solicit the deliverance of their "pensionaires.
The relations between the Vaudois ministers and the Seigneury of Berne, became daily more complicated.
Calvin is despatched by the Seigneury to Zurich, to obtain certain information of the condition of the war between the Emperor and the Protestant princes.
He was nevertheless imprisoned, afterwards released at the request of the Seigneury of Berne, and stripped of his offices.
He had obtained from the Seigneury of Berne permission to reside at Arau.
On the death of the minister Chaponneau, the people of Neuchatel wished to have in his room Christopher Fabri, minister of Thonon: they accordingly asked him from the Seigneury of Berne, who with a good grace conceded him to them.
He set out immediately for Berne, in order to try a last application on the part of the seigneury of that town to the King of France.
Calvin justifies himself in council with regard to a certain letter he had written, in which it was alleged he blamed the Seigneuryof this city.
Ecclesiastical embroilments with the Seigneuryof Berne.
Sons fight with fathers--"the Old Man" will not let his grown boys rule the seigneury to their liking.
The seigneury has been blessed with a comparative absence of bandits, but ever and anon a Pontdebois merchant gets stripped, a girl is carried off into the woods, or even the body of a traveler is found by the roadside.
We have visited St. Aliquis in days of peace, and at peace the seigneury remains while we tarry.
The discussions center around a certain seigneury of St. Aliquis.
There is even a story of a lad born in a neighboring seigneury who thus rose to be a bishop!
All in all, the seigneury of St. Aliquis thus covers three hundred square miles, whereof about one-third is controlled by the baron as his personal domain and the remainder by his vassals.
A stout wooden bar about waist high is set across the middle of the lists, and seven knights from one seigneury and seven from another undertake to cross the same, while preventing the other party from advancing.
The entire seigneury had to arm and actually storm his castle before he would submit.
The average baron marries to extend his seigneury and to rear up sons to defend it.
Even upon a well-ordered seigneury the number of the poor, disabled, and generally miserable is great.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seigneury" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
