The seneschals and high bailiffs, like the presidents of the chambers, received five hundred livres--fifty thousand francs.
The bailiffs and seneschals were directed to reside within their districts.
If Poitou were still in the hands of the Count of La Marche and the Viscount of Thouars, the royal seneschals of Beaucaire and Carcassonne after 1229 ruled over a large part of the old dominions of Raymond of Toulouse.
The ineptitude which characterised all Edward's subordinates was particularly conspicuous among his Gascon seneschalsand their subordinates.
Seneschals quickly succeeded each other; the barons expected the office to be filled by one of their own order, and the towns, jealous of hostile neighbours, demanded the appointment of an Englishman.
Let the Loyal High Inexorable Guardians and the Grand Holy Seneschals of the Klan advance!
Those who were in front of Carpenter stepped back, and the Loyal High Inexorable Guardians and the Grand Holy Seneschals took Carpenter by the arms and led him away.
Lieutenants, Civil and Criminel--to whom, by the ordinance of 1560, the judicial functions of the Baillis and Seneschals were transferred.
After that date the importance of the Baillis and Seneschals rapidly declined, especially after the final institution of the Intendants by Richelieu.
Another branch of the Fitzgeralds, known as hereditary seneschals of Imokilly, were settled in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries at Castle Martyr.
The sheriffs and seneschals were ordered to proceed to the election of two good and discreet knights from each county or liberty, who were to have full power to act for their districts.
Not only did he defray the cost of the fixed tribunals, but his seneschals had orders to pay the expenses of the inquisitors and their familiars in their movements throughout his territories.
It had long been their habit to abandon the management of their affairs to seneschals (karo), and they followed the custom on this occasion without profound reflection.
This building, after the English left, was the residence of the seneschals of the Viscounts of Turenne down to the Revolution.
At no time was there much dissatisfaction with the rule of the English sovereigns and their seneschals in Western Aquitaine.
Those opposing execution or distress made by order of the seneschals to be amerced and bound to the commonalty in forty pence.
The seneschals are to render account for all moneys received by them each year upon the morrow of the circumcision of our Lord.
Any one neglecting to appear before the seneschalswhen summoned is to be amerced.
Mary’s or of the Holy Cross in the church of the said borough he shall render account for the moneys arising therefrom to the said seneschals whenever summoned so to do.
He was descended from an old and warrior line of French nobility, his ancestors having long been seneschals of Poitou, and claiming descent from the first counts of Angouleme.
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