With the abolition of the seigniorial system ends too the story of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Few of the old seigniorial families remained on their original estates. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Estate of Bigorre, which called for the abolition of seigniorial rights. From Wordnik.com. [Names] Reference
The seigniorial rights, including that of coining money, belonged to the bishops. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Since under the seigniorial tenure, the farmers must use the seigneur's grist mill. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
The clerk, seeing the flush of seigniorial fever on the face of the imbecile and colossal. From Wordnik.com. [Ursula] Reference
This was the beginning of that seigniorial tenure which lasted for two centuries and a quarter. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
But in time the burden of grievances was generally felt and then the seigniorial system was doomed. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
They were to be held under seigniorial tenure but Nairne asked for 3000 acres of freehold and Fraser for 2000. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
In 1854, after an election fought largely on this issue, the Parliament of Canada swept away the seigniorial system. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Fraser wrote in 1797, but an income of only £20 a year from the mills does not indicate any extortionate exercise of seigniorial rights. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
A few members of the seigniorial nobility, the officials and some merchants -- perhaps three hundred in all -- may have gone back to France. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
These judges, who were competent to decide questions as to the payment of seigniorial dues could not, legally at all events, themselves farm those revenues. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
When the right of appeal was instituted, it was they who heard the appeals from sentences pronounced by inferior royal judges and by the seigniorial justices. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
To another authority on the seigniorial system in Canada, Professor W. Bennett Munro, of Harvard University, I am much indebted for information readily given. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
But, in the ensuing series of meetings and rebukes and letters of seigniorial self-justification, Cardinal Egan effectively confirmed every ugly tale told about him. From Wordnik.com. [Don���t Let the Door Hit You, Your Eminence, on the Way Out] Reference
So she said something vaguely seigniorial and unconsciously cruel to him and paid no attention to his answer except to notice that he called her Dame Alice instead of Madam. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Those seigniorial rights then seemed to me terrible. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Pearls] Reference
The seigniorial mansion itself is taking on more of pomp. From Wordnik.com. [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference
I understood but little the meaning of the seigniorial life there. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Although the seigniorial tenure disappeared from the social system of. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Elgin] Reference
The seigniorial state in which Pierre Grignon lived became at once evident. From Wordnik.com. [Lazarre] Reference
Beside the seigniorial manse, there were a number of little dependent manses. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval People] Reference
It was by these services that the monks got their own seigniorial farm cultivated. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval People] Reference
Statement of grievance of a magistrate of the Chatelet on seigniorial judgments. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
By the side of each baron, a squire, also on horseback, carried the seigniorial banner. From Wordnik.com. [Laboulaye's Fairy Book] Reference
This is the mode by which the seigniorial domain gradually crumbles away and decreases. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
At Munster, in 1809, Beugnot finds a sovereign bishop, a town of convents and a large seigniorial mansion. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
A seigniorial domain which, according to its own return of income, should pay 2,400 livres, pays only 1,216. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
In Auvergne, a feudal country, covered with extensive ecclesiastic and seigniorial domains, the misery is the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
Council of Clarendon (1164), which provided that the king was to receive, as of seigniorial right (sicut dominicos), all the income. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The established seigniorial system bore conclusive evidence of the same paternal spirit which sent shiploads of virtuous young women. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Elgin] Reference
The Company was to receive, besides, an annual acknowledgement of a thousand pounds of beaver, and was to retain all seigniorial rights. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
By the terms of his patent, he held seigniorial rights over this wild domain; and he now began to grant it out in parcels to his followers. From Wordnik.com. [France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3] Reference
I hear that you have taught the peasants to complain of the seigniorial rights, and to expect to have the corvee and all other dues remitted. '. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Pearls] Reference
In Brittany the number of seigniorial courts is immense, the pleaders being obliged to pass through four or five jurisdictions before reaching the Parliament. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
A few of the heads of old parliamentary or seigniorial families maintain the old patrician and monarchical standard, the new generation succumbing to novelty. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
On the confines of la Marche and of Berry a domain which, in 1660, honorably supported two seigniorial families is now simply a small unproductive tenant-farm. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
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