Sentence examples for estates granted to from inspiring English sources

Pastoralist families lived on estates granted to them in convict days.

He next grants administrative rights to Sylvester and his successors over estates granted to churches throughout the empire.

Other sectors were settled via encomiendas, essentially feudal estates granted to conquistadors and others who had provided service to the Spanish crown.

Grants of fiefs in Anatolia are well attested in the 5th and 4th centuries; in the pages of the Greek historian Xenophon (431 350) one finds the descendants of Medizing Greek families still installed on estates granted to their ancestors after 479 (and inscriptions show the same families were still there well into the Hellenistic period).

It is unlikely that Malcolm controlled Cumbria, and the dispute instead concerned the estates granted to Malcolm by William Rufus's father in 1072 for his maintenance when visiting England.

His own roots are a mixture of aristocracy and poverty: his father was a caretaker in a chocolate factory, but he recently unearthed his (Polish) family crest and the site of an estate granted to his family by Peter the Great.

It had been around since 1700, when the estate was granted to a governor of the Dutch East India Company's Cape Colony supply station.

In 1549, the College estate was granted to George Brooke, Baron Cobham for the sum of £1081 18s 1d (£ in ).

The estate was granted to Richard Dry, father of Richard Dry who was later Premier of Tasmania, in 1837.

During Edward's reign, Æthelwig worked to recover some of the abbey's estates that had been granted to others in the past but had not been returned to the abbey's custody.

At first Royal Assent was withheld, but the following year Anne capitulated to the wishes of the Estates and assent was granted to the bill, which became the Act of Security 1704.