Grand serjeanty is of course included by parity under military service.
The tenure of petit serjeanty bears a great resemblance to the tenure of grand serjeanty; for as the one is a personal service, so the other is a rent or render, both tending to some purpose relative to the king's person.
Brienston, in Dorsetshire, was held in grand serjeanty by a curious jocular tenure, viz.
The most notable instance in England, however, is the grand serjeanty of finding for the king a glove for his right hand on coronation day, and supporting his right arm as long as he holds the sceptre.
His petition for a regrant to himself as lineal heir of Bertram de Verdun, however, was disallowed by the court of claims, and the serjeanty was declared to be attached to the manor of Worksop (G.
Worksop in Nottinghamshire he stipulated that the right to perform this serjeanty should be reserved to him, and the king accordingly transferred the obligation from Farnham to Worksop.
The male descendants of Bertram performed this serjeanty at the coronations until the death of Theobald de Verdun in 1316, when the right passed, with the manor of Farnham, to Thomas Lord Furnival by his marriage with the heiress Joan.
Other tenures were: serjeanty [providing an implement of war or performing a nonmilitary office] and burgage.
Other serjeanty services were helping in the lord's hunting expeditions and looking after his hounds.
Footnote 54: The service of grand serjeanty was usually more onerous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serjeanty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
