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Example sentences for "seigniories"

Lexicographically close words:
seigneury; seignior; seigniorage; seignioral; seigniorial; seigniors; seigniory; seignorage; seignorial; seignories
  1. Sacred Royal Catholic Majesty, may our Lord guard and increase the life and person of your Royal Majesty with more kingdoms and seigniories for many happy years, with victories over your enemies, as your royal heart desires.

  2. The seigniory of Mathieu d'Amours, sieur de Freneuse, lay between the two seigniories of his brother Louis at Jemseg and Nashwaak, extending a distance of seven leagues and including both sides of the river.

  3. The Sieur de Soulanges seems to have been highly favored by Frontenac for the three seigniories granted to him included an area of more than a hundred square miles.

  4. A few seigniories were established by that company; but, as we have seen, the country under its management was practically at a standstill.

  5. The patent granted to the Company of New France, or of the Hundred Associates, had made them lords of the whole territory of Canada, with power to concede seigniories therein of varying degrees of extent, importance and dignity.

  6. The size and shape of the farms were governed by the form of the seigniories throughout the province.

  7. Footnote 2: Malcolm Fraser, an officer in the 78th Highlanders and afterwards first seigneur of Mount Murray, one of the two seigniories into which Malbaie was divided, was sent out on these ravaging expeditions.

  8. They were paid bounties and made tenants on seigniories if they would take wives of the king’s girls and return to colonial civilization.

  9. I do love to pile good stuff together and call land mine, but thou knowest I love a bit of cloth from one of thy old garments better than all the seigniories in New France.

  10. May our Lord guard the Catholic and royal person of your Majesty for mary prosperous years, and give you increase of many kingdoms and seigniories for the good of Christianity.

  11. Seigniories were granted on both sides of the lake, and in that of Sieur Hocquart, which extended three leagues along the lake and five leagues back therefrom, was this settlement on Point a la Chevalure.

  12. May our Lord keep your sacred royal Catholic majesty, and increase your kingdoms and seigniories for many and prosperous years, as your royal heart desires.

  13. Very exalted and powerful lord, may our Lord watch over the very exalted and powerful and royal person of your highness, and may he augment you with more kingdoms and seigniories for many and fortunate years.

  14. But being incamped neere the towne of Blangie, he by a sudden maladie departed this life, the last of August, leauing his seigniories to Lewes de Lutzenburg his sonne and heire.

  15. The other seigniories to be laid out in like proportion.

  16. All commodities brought from England for the use of the same seigniories to be duty free for seven years.

  17. During the French dominion the Crown sequestrated a number of seigniories for the failure to observe the obligation of cultivation.

  18. It had the right of establishing seigniories as a part of its undertaking to bring four thousand colonists to the province and furnish them with subsistence for three years.

  19. For nearly a quarter of a century from this time, the name of Clifford remained an attainted one; their castles and seigniories passed into the hands of strangers and enemies.

  20. Wherefore the said king and his sonne banished out of their lands and seigniories all English clothes, yarne, tin, lead, and other commodities of this realme.

  21. A Privy Seal warrant in February, 1586, confirmed by letters patent in the following October, awarded to the three three seigniories and a half in Waterford, Cork, and perhaps Tipperary.

  22. Seigniories varied in extent from twelve to four thousand acres.

  23. Up to 1627, when the Company of New France (or the Company of One Hundred Associates) was chartered, only three seigniories had been granted, two to colonial laymen and the third to the Jesuit Order.

  24. In 1647 granted the seigniories of Cournoyer and Repentigny, but did not live long to enjoy them, as he died the following year on his way to France.

  25. In the first place the Austrian seigniories were not compact.

  26. Certain portions of Upper Alsace, lands on both sides of the Rhine, Thurgau, Argau in Switzerland, Breisgau, and some other seigniories in the Black Forest were under his sway.

  27. May our Lord preserve your Majesty many years with the increase of kingdoms and seigniories that we your subjects and vassals desire.

  28. May our Lord preserve your royal Majesty’s sacred Catholic person with an increase of greater kingdoms and seigniories as we your Majesty’s servants desire.

  29. May our Lord preserve the royal Catholic person of your Majesty with the increase of greater kingdoms and seigniories as is necessary to Christianity.

  30. This hierarchy of all feudal seigniories existed in name only, never in fact.

  31. Both the wolves and the whelps of the seigniories are beasts of prey and of carnage.

  32. The Church holds her seigniories from God alone.

  33. The vain-glory, the cupidity, the ambition of founding seigniories in the Orient, the hope of buying back your forfeitures and of escaping from the claws of the devil have driven you seigneurs to the Crusade!

  34. Among the survivors, some, seized and kept for serfs of the new seigniories of Edessa, Antioch or Tripoli, have been forced to cultivate these lands for the seigneurs under the killing sun of the Holy Land.

  35. The monk answered: "Is not the lot of the villeins and the serfs on the lay or ecclesiastical seigniories the most wretched?


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seigniories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.