No matter how intense work was in small demesnes, the level of productivity failed to increase. |
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There were recurrent scutages and tallages on demesnes, which included boroughs. |
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Ancient rusting gates invite you up leafy avenues to romantic lost demesnes, ivy-clad ruins and mouldering monuments. |
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The society has had a considerable input into the various road plans and bypasses where they affect historic properties or important demesnes. |
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The Reich, too, possessed demesnes in the east, notably the Egerland, Vogtland, and Pleissnerland in the Thuringian march. |
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Marc Bloch observed long ago that labor services peasants owed lords and the size of demesnes dwindled between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. |
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Whether lords had demesnes and servile tenants or not, the association between landlordship and power remained close. |
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In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demesnes. |
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