manorial accounts. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This system, this economic side of feudalism, is what we know as the manorial system. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)] Reference
Over wide sections, untitled manorial lords. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6)] Reference
It became almost a ... manorial system, is that the word?. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
France, the paramount sovereign of our little manorial lord. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The economy was based on settled agriculture of a manorial sort. From Wordnik.com. [4. China, to 221 B.C.E] Reference
Mayor, and the manorial rights of the Priory were ceded to the Mayor and. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
The Diet abolished forced labor but maintained many other manorial rights. From Wordnik.com. [b. Hungary] Reference
There are in the neighbourhood two other ancient manorial residences, named. From Wordnik.com. [Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.] Reference
In mediæval country life, then, commons might be either manorial or forestal. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
Is Quigley supposed to quail and quake like some feudal serf before the manorial lord?. From Wordnik.com. [Gay Men Should Quake and Quail?] Reference
The Léon country was governed by Viscounts, who boasted, among several manorial rights, the. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Although most peasants were free, many had little land, and surviving manorial dues were galling. From Wordnik.com. [2. The French Revolution, 1789-1799] Reference
A bull came bellowing up the stretch of finished road, one of the manorial cattle, a powerful brute. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
He intended to work on the book at Falaise, the Guggenheim manorial estate on Sands Point, Long Island. From Wordnik.com. ['The Flight of the Century'] Reference
Neither are they identical with the commons of the separate vills -- the manorial or parochial commons. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
At the junction of the two valleys stood an enormous building, half manorial, half monastic in appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
After a while, however, he was induced to surrender the objectionable "parte of his patente," and manorial. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
Rising of the peasants against the manorial lords in Dauphiné, Provence, Burgundy, and throughout France. From Wordnik.com. [b. The National Assembly] Reference
And that defeats librettist da Ponte's careful working of class divisions within a single manorial household. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season] Reference
As for the economy, the Zhou feudal manorial system had disintegrated by the later centuries of eastern Zhou. From Wordnik.com. [256 B.C.E] Reference
The evidence of the inscriptions on "Balks and beams" in old manorial dwellings is especially to be suspected. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850] Reference
Its only act of lasting importance was the emancipation of the peasants from manorial burdens (law of Sept. 7). From Wordnik.com. [June 17] Reference
The senior general, or "number one brother," as one cab driver jibed, does still have a manorial estate in Rangoon. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, Big Brother Is Watching] Reference
Manchester emancipate itself from the last traces of feudal subjection by the purchase of manorial and market rights. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
England, during the period following the Norman Conquest, contained more than nine thousand of these manorial estates. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The old manorial system was abolished and one in four peasant families obtained land, but the holdings remained small. From Wordnik.com. [19. The Balkan States] Reference
If we turn to London, we shall discover that its administration was conducted, to a large extent, on country and manorial lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
The manorial rights ultimately passed to the Heathcotes, and are now the property of the head of that family, the Earl of Ancaster. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Is J.R. aware that the principal part of the parish of Mortimer, near Reading, as well as the manorial rights, belongs to a Richard. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850] Reference
Especially in the south, the peasantry rose against manorial dues by looting and burning, which especially targeted ownership records. From Wordnik.com. [f. Germany] Reference
The manorial spirit was at once bestowed upon the place by this iron fence, a spirit against which the Consul never in any wise fought. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
Both parties gained by an arrangement which converted the manorial lord into a landlord and the serf into a free tenant-farmer paying rent. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Goodman Trampclod — manorial rights — mines and minerals — and the devil knows how many good things besides, all lying in the vale of. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Ronan's Well] Reference
Feudal Society is a very important contribution to our understanding of the institutions and social relations of feudalism -- the manorial system, vassalage, and kingship. From Wordnik.com. [Marc Bloch's history] Reference
The castles and fortified buildings varied a little in outward construction from the ordinary manorial residences, but the same general arrangement of the interior existed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
That house is now a farm, but it retains traces of old manorial grandeur -- some panelled rooms with great windows, a hall with lofty fireplace, and the fishponds of the gardens. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
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