The best wines of Baden are produced in the seigniory of. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Each duchy, countship, seigniory had to be taken in turn. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
Hazeur were invited to sell back the seigniory to the government. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Comporté and his partners in the seigniory had planned great things. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Nairne's seigniory was to be called Murray's Bay and Fraser's Mount Murray. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
The seigniory belonged to his mother, during her lifetime, but he was the heir. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
So the guardian of the children determined to sell at auction their third of the seigniory. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
He received from the King a grant of Fort Frontenac and its surrounding lands as a seigniory. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
He had thought of himself as a young Bashaw strutting round among the people of his seigniory. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Mingan seigniory below Tadousac westward to Les Eboulements, and extending northward to Hudson Bay. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
He died without issue in 1830 and his brother, John Malcolm Fraser, then fell heir to the seigniory. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
In 1653 a grant was made of the seigniory of Malbaie to Jean Bourdon, Surveyor-General of the Colony. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
"She reigned as sovereign in the seigniory," he says, "by the very tender ties of love and of gratitude.". From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
In 1687 he was, apparently, in need of money, and he resolved to sell two-thirds of his interest in the seigniory of Malbaie. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Feudalism, composed as it was of military ideas and ecclesiastical traditions, exercised the well known "rights of seigniory.". From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
This association was to hold Canada, as a feudal seigniory under the King, and with the right of soil, was to possess a monopoly of trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
But Bourdon seems not to have thought it worth while to make any attempt to settle his seigniory and, apparently for lack of settlement, the grant lapsed. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
His distant seigniory excited the English imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference
Louis Jolliet married and settled down on his seigniory of Anticosti Island. From Wordnik.com. [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference
He was also nominated hydrographer-royal, and got enfeoffed in a seigniory near. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12] Reference
Sulpitian priests and others, twenty-four in all, he sets forth from his seigniory. From Wordnik.com. [The French in the Heart of America] Reference
The King bestowed on La Salle the seigniory of Cataraqui (Kingston) and ennobled him. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12] Reference
The cost was to be his own; and he had no money, having spent it all on his seigniory. From Wordnik.com. [France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3] Reference
If they leave the seigniory he can pursue them in every direction and bring them back by force. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
This negotiation, which bore successively upon the county of Limbourg and the small seigniory of. From Wordnik.com. [Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
Canada, though his seigniory of Fort Frontenac alone would have more than sufficed to pay all his debts. From Wordnik.com. [France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3] Reference
Above Three Rivers, the whole population was imprisoned in stockade forts hastily built in every seigniory. From Wordnik.com. [Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV] Reference
From St. Paul's Bay to Quebec, there is nothing but the seigniory of Beauport that belongs to a private person. From Wordnik.com. [A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America] Reference
Saint-Claude he acquires this right over any person that passes a year and a day in a house belonging to the seigniory. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
The seigniory, the county, the duchy becomes a patrimony which is loved through a blind instinct, and to which all are devoted. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
La Salle returned to Canada, proprietor of a seigniory, which, all things considered, was one of the most valuable in the colony. From Wordnik.com. [France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3] Reference
Faenza, by the capture of Farlimpopoli, and the surrender of Rimini, which Pandolfo Malatesta, its lard, exchanged for the seigniory of. From Wordnik.com. [The Borgias Celebrated Crimes] Reference
Talon, Intendant, arrival at Quebec; builds a brewery; first owner of Belmont; seigniory granted to; probable builder of Château Bigot. From Wordnik.com. [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference
Salle, now a noble and possessed of a seigniory two hundred miles west of that on which we left him -- two hundred miles nearer his goal. From Wordnik.com. [The French in the Heart of America] Reference
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