I am much obliged to "SELEUCUS" for his answer to this inquiry, as far as regards the seignory of Gower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850] Reference

The seignory of Gower is the peninsula which runs out between the bays of Swansea and Carmarthen; and which terminates at Swansea on the S.E. side, and at Longhor on the N.W., and comprises the district which, in common with a part of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850] Reference

Shortly after the erection of this seignory into a marquistate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference

Baldwin separated from the main army to found a seignory for himself at Edessa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Europe] Reference

Other heirs apparent of a rich seignory would soon have removed these difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference

Murray subsequently married sold his commission, and purchased the seignory of Argenteuil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference

But she is except of some other generalities, because that the dignity gave to her such seignory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 4] Reference

We therefore humbly entreat you to agree to our conditions, to accept the sovereign seignory of these.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Monsieur de Laye has a seignory of about fifteen thousand arpents, in pasture, corn, vines, and wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference

The uprising had spread from the Waes country and the ancient seignory of Malines, around Louvain as far as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Regime, Volume 1] Reference

She was born among the nobles of the senators of Rome, and of the lineage of the noble Gregois, rich of good and puissant of seignory at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 3] Reference

Berreo in all he could, and not to suffer him to enter through his seignory, nor any of his companies; neither to victual, nor guide them in any sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Discovery of Guiana] Reference

The crown of England is the lord paramount or suzerain, and demands a tax of one fifth of the purchase-money of each seignory sold or transferred by the lord of the manor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada and the Canadians Volume I] Reference

The Duke of Brittany entered into a treaty with him for the valuable seignory of Ingrande; but the heirs of Gilles implored the interference of Charles VII. to stay the sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference

I assented, and yielded you the province, upon the understanding, sworn to according to the faith of loyal kings, that within forty days you assign to me its seignory as your vassal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chivalry] Reference

And he had the walls of the city prepared, and stored it well with food and with all things needful for war, and gathered together a great power of Christians and of the Moors of his seignory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle of the Cid] Reference

That the Dukes of Cornwall have from the creation of the Duchy enjoyed the rights and prerogatives of a County Palatine, as far as regarded seignory or territorial dominion, and that to a great extent by Earls.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlogCymru.com] Reference

Wherefore, letting call the seneschal, he was fain to know at what point things stood all and after discreetly ordained that which he judged would be well and would content the company for such time as his seignory should endure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

In consequence of this agreement, and with the intent of abolishing the tanistic succession, he, on the last day of August, 1590, perfected a deed of feofment, entailing thereby the seignory of Breifny (O'Reilly) on his eldest son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference

King Henry with the seignory of the same district, led to a tragedy, the first of its kind in our annals, but destined to be the prototype of an almost indefinite series, in which the gainers were sometimes natives, but much oftener Normans.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1] Reference

The king would promise nothing, but seems to have attempted to make Columbus exchange the privileges which he enjoyed by the royal promise for a seignory in a little town in the kingdom of Leon, which is named not improperly "The Counts 'Carrion.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.] Reference

The central seignory itself is merely a donjon of the tenth century, a military tower of which the enclosure has extended so as to embrace the entire territory, and of which the other buildings, more or less incorporated with it, have become prolongations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Regime, Volume 1] Reference

I. A., the feoffor, reserved to himself no estate or reversion in the land, but the seignory only, with the rent and services, by virtue of which he might again become entitled to the land by escheat, as for want of heirs of the feoffee, or by forfeiture, as for felony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

These castles afford another evidence that the fictions of romantick chivalry had for their basis the real manners of the feudal times, when every Lord of a seignory lived in his hold lawless and unaccountable, with all the licentiousness and insolence of uncontested superiority and unprincipled power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland] Reference

There was a hole there which would afford steady work for all the people in that region for some years to come -- in trying to explain it, I mean; as for filling it up, that service would be comparatively prompt, and would fall to the lot of a select few -- peasants of that seignory; and they wouldn't get anything for it, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court] Reference

In trying to explain it, I mean; as for filling it up, that service would be comparatively prompt, and would fall to the lot of a select few -- peasants of that seignory; and they wouldn't get anything for it, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6.] Reference

"Some time ago my cousin of Bourbon informed me of the negotiations for the marriage of my cousin of Charolais, your son, to my cousin Isabella of Bourbon, his daughter, which marriage has been deferred, as he writes me, because he does not wish to alienate to his daughter the seignory of Château-Chinon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

“Some time ago my cousin of Bourbon informed me of the negotiations for the marriage of my cousin of Charolais, your son, to my cousin Isabella of Bourbon, his daughter, which marriage has been deferred, as he writes me, because he does not wish to alienate to his daughter the seignory of Chateau-Chinon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold]

And may thy flood have seignory.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

Save Hugues at the peril of my seignory!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages] Reference