Sentence examples for manorial from inspiring English sources

Manorial records of the late 14th century are full of despondent reports.

Yet a legal quirk creates a market in Scottish baronies, "lairdships" or "manorial lordships".

The Anglo-Norman manorial system was introduced into Wales after the conquest of 1282, but nucleated villages became significant only in the eastern and southern peripheries of the country, where physical and political conditions favoured their development.

With the establishment of the kokudaka system, the Taikō land survey delivered the final blow to the shōen system of manorial holdings, which had already virtually disappeared under the onslaught of the Sengoku daimyo.

In addition to those who practiced in the courts, there was also a large demand for stewards and legal advisers to landowners to conduct general business and keep manorial courts.

By the Middle Ages, dovecote populations were kept as a source of food on virtually every manorial estate in Europe.

In the 3rd and early 2nd millennia, the elite ideal, expressed in the decoration of private tombs, was manorial and rural.

In England the movement for enclosure began in the 12th century and proceeded rapidly in the period 1450 1640, when the purpose was mainly to increase the amount of full-time pasturage available to manorial lords.

King Richard's promises at Mile End and Smithfield were promptly forgotten, and manorial discontent continued to find expression in local riots.

Now his baronial-manorial aesthetic is having a second coming — albeit in a slightly more accessible way.

They are members of the Manorial Society of Britain and attend its annual September banquet in Oxford.