| The site develops with the construction of an aisled Late Saxon timber hall, which was one of King Cnut's royal manors. |
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| The decoration was much more ornate than had been seen on most houses, even exquisite manors like the Big House and the Roscoe House. |
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| They held these manors upon condition of rendering the king service in person, or in kind, or in money. |
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| I also sought out smaller houses, manors, rectories and cottages that can be visited by the public. |
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| In the summer of 1306, bishops and barons and knights from all around England left their country manors and villages and journeyed to London. |
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| Here the population was sparse, tiny villages and small, often isolated manors close to the riverbanks. |
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| The operation of these plantations resembled the feudal manors of medieval Europe. |
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| Only in very special circumstances could either castle or bourg flourish in the absence of nearby manors to sustain them. |
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| Travels took the Elven company through two more baronies, and countless counties, manors and small towns along their way. |
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| In English Ireland they were associated with the reorganization of the land into manors with demesne land and dependent tenants, based to some extent on English models. |
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| However he was very popular with the lords and chieftains of his day as he stayed in their castles and manors and wrote of their prowess and lineage. |
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| When the English took over the colony from the Dutch in 1664, the patroon system was continued and, indeed, large manors were allotted to English settlers. |
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| Over time, he bought several manors at Congham, Westacre and Happisburgh and was granted a coat of arms, becoming a minor member of the gentry. |
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| Worsley was, originally, the largest manor of the seven ancient manors of the Bridgewater Estates. |
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| This land and Peverel's castle were amongst the manors belonging to William Peverel that also included Bolsover and Glapwell. |
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| Such areas are derived from wastes of manors, where rights probably existed formerly. |
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| This lasted until 1165, although in private manors executions continued to be conducted as a form of retaliation. |
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| Some of the king's manors were not hidated, and some were hidated but did not geld. |
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| Norman settlements were characterised by the establishment of baronies, manors, towns and the seeds of the modern county system. |
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| The title of Count of Boulogne was accompanied with important manors in London and Colchester. |
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| An alliance with these two counties was then logically sealed by this wedding and the concessions of manors. |
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| Thatched cottages, manors, old mills, venerable churches and wooded lanes personify a John Bull fancy, neatly tucked into gentle hill folds. |
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| Monasteries and minster churches were set up all over Somerset, with daughter churches of the minsters in manors. |
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| Many were no longer settled in isolated farms but had gathered into small communities, usually known as manors or villages. |
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| As examples of engrossing in the neighborhood of Dorchester, the writer instances the manors of Came, Whitcomb, Muncton, and Bockhampton. |
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| Only Sheviock was in the hands of the abbey while Ermenhald held five manors from it. |
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| The honour of Christchurch consisted of many widely scattered manors in several counties. |
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| The manors were large holdings with the work done by feudal peasant farmers. |
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| After the English takeover of New Netherland in 1664, the system continued with the granting of large tracts known as manors, and sometimes referred to as patroonships. |
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| Upon the occasion of his first publication he quit his day job, only to find that Grub Street wasn't lined with manors and villas but hovels and slums. |
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| First, in January 1331, Bradeston was granted the keeping of the manors of Lechlade and Siddington Musard and two parts of the manor of Barnsley of the earl of Kent's estate. |
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| The original 17 manors, all in Cornwall, are known as the antiqua maneria. |
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| Under the charter, the manors of the earldom passed to the duchy. |
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| In the 19th century the European nobility discovered among others the red deer antlers as perfect object for fashioning their manors and hunting castles. |
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| Of the 28 former lords of the Wirral manors listed, 12 bore Norse names. |
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| A paper in his father's handwriting, dated 9 June 1700, shows the family estate in Norfolk and Suffolk to have been nine manors in Norfolk and one in Suffolk. |
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| At least 353 of the 387 manors, in the county, were taken from their Saxon owners and given to the victorious Normans by the Conqueror, Saxon power in Sussex was at an end. |
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