How To Use Demesne In A Sentence
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There is little information in Domesday Book on peasant production but a good deal on demesne inputs and output.
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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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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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Berewick {197a} of Langton one carucate in demesne, eight soke men
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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Yet manorial extents from the 1200s onwards often indicate considerable changes in the area of the lord of the manor's demesne and its management.
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Perhaps only in Urbino does one pick up the same sense, in Italy, of absolute power in a confined space: this is a duchy that made a virtue of containment, a secret garden in the demesne of Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
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There were recurrent scutages (payments for the commutation of military service) and tallages (arbitrary levies) on demesnes, which included boroughs.
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When next the mayor and aldermen appeared before the council, they resisted the talliage on the following grounds: (363) — In the first place, because, although the king might talliage cities and boroughs that were of his demesne, he could not, as they understood, talliage the City of London, which enjoyed exemption from such an imposition by charter.
London and the Kingdom - Volume I
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Larry Downing/Reuters Madeline P. Gallard, 13, of Victoria, British Columbia, reacted after mis-spelling her word -- "demesne" -- during competition Wednesday.
Spelled Out
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This relatively open setting allowed for unimpeded views from the villa across the demesne.
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In marked contrast, the current restoration of Ballyfin is an exemplary model of close attention to the demesne landscape as well as the house itself.
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The famous Castletown obelisk, for example, is on land that forms part of the Carton demesne.
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Private chases created by tenants-in-chief since 1154 outside their own demesnes were likewise abrogated, in accordance with the provisions of the Forest Charter.
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The most common way of doing that was to increase compulsory labour services on the demesne land itself.
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While _Nau_ (1791), in his “Ersten Linien der C.,” treats only of the branches of private economy, _Schmalz_, (1797) treats also of national or public economy, and _Rössig_ (1792) divides cameralistic science into the doctrine of the public demesne and regal rights (cameralistic science in the narrower sense), and the doctrine of taxation and police.
System der volkswirthschaft. English
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The gilded leaves of magnolia, sweet chestnut and tulip trees gleam within Cotehele's demesne and, above the millstream tributary, can be seen the yellow tops of larch, planted 30 years ago.
Country diary: Tamar Valley
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Usually the forlorn demesne was supervised by a mangy waiter brooding over mangy tables and by a mangier cat who kept a furtive eye on the placarded list of each day's _plat du jour_ and wondered when her turn would come for Thursday's _Sauté de lapin_.
The Belovéd Vagabond
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Next stop was Ballydoolin House, Carbury, which is a country demesne with a large Georgian country house and farmyard, built in 1821.
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The Chantrey demesne, by contrast, was definitely ragged, scrubby grass with the odd daffodil appearing as if by mistake.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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On the other hand the _gebur_ seems not to have been liable to payments of this kind, presumably because the land which he cultivated formed part of the demesne
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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The boundary walls of the demesne garden and orchard have been preserved while a piered entrance with a gate has been erected to provide a security.
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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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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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macadamized" with a gray cement which gives very much the effect of asphaltum, separate one demesne from another; and each meadow, lawn, field, and barn-yard has its own proper fence or wall, constructed in the most workmanlike manner.
The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal
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The manor consisted of demesne land (private land of the lord) and tenants' holdings.
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droit de motte," which empowered them, if a vassal (they were "serfs de motte") attempted to live out of his demesne, or to enter the service of another lord, to bring him back to his "motte," a cord round his neck, and inflict upon him corporal punishment.
Brittany & Its Byways
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Domesday Book also lists the demesne resources or inputs.
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For example, arable agriculture on the demesne centred on the use of oxen ploughteams and their complement of manpower.
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Come through legislation standard demesne forest advocate the main measure that behavior is American executive administration.
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This land held directly by the lord of the manor and cultivated for him was called the "demesne," and frequently included one-half or even a larger proportion of all the land of the vill.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
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In Piedmont and Naples the nobles were the principal beneficiaries from the alienations of tax revenues and demesne lands.
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Under serfdom, peasants were not paid for their produce on demesne.
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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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Wade's house is well situated on a rising ground, and the demesne is a pretty one.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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The amiable and insolvent owner of the 300-acre estate died after being ambushed near his demesne.
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This affluent and woody oasis of tranquillity contrasts starkly with the roughly hewn stakes of the Catholic churchyard on the outer edges of the demesne.
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Most demesnes therefore were leased - ‘farmed’ was the technical term - in return for a money rent.
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It was ordered that "no tenant-in-chief of the king, no officer of his household, or of his demesne, should be excommunicated, or his lands put under an interdict, until application had been made to the king, or in his absence to the grand justiciary, who ought to take care that what belongs to the king's courts shall be there determined, and what belongs to the ecclesiastical courts shall be determined in them.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante)
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In the demesne are the ruins of Cappacross, a stronghold of the O'Sullivans.
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
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This was not exactly UNICORN POINT J89 the Tan Demesnes, but it was a pleasant enough bucolic lo - cale, and she rather liked it.
Here There Are Monsters
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The resulting verdicts amounted, once again, to a demand for the abolition of the Forest jurisdiction outside the king's demesnes.
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On the manor the peasants worked the lord's demesne in return for protection, housing, and the use of plots of land to cultivate their own crops.
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The happy village was gone -- razed to the very foundations -- the demesne was a solitude -- the songs of the reapers and mowers had vanished, as it were, into the recesses of memory, and the magnificent palace, dull and lonely, lay as if it were situated in some land of the dead, where human voice or footstep had not been heard for years.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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Additionally this railroad is to belong to demesne share - holding system railroad.
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Still have to socialistic labour force demesne the cognizance of attribute, having important real sense.
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Salford itself was Royal Demesne as was the sub-manor of Radcliffe and there were 21 sub-manors in thanage.
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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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All kings drew resources from demesne estates and received regular food-rents, services, and payments in money or kind.
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The grotto will be restored to its original form and repairs will be carried out on the walls surrounding the demesne.
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The lord's land was called his "demesne," or domain.
Early European History
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In this account of the Hawsted harvest the large number of hired men and the few customary tenants is noteworthy as a sign of the times, for before the Black Death the harvest work on the demesne was the special work of the latter.
A Short History of English Agriculture
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Under serfdom, peasants were not paid for their produce on demesne.
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By virtue of the same right, if the demesne of a lord was so placed that it had no natural height from which to survey its extent, his vassals were made to bring sufficient cart-loads of earth to raise a mound or "motte" of the requisite elevation.
Brittany & Its Byways
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With a sunny south-facing aspect, the demesne, which includes mature deciduous trees and a lake, is shielded from the road by a high cut-stone wall.
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The notice was put in place by the council to protect some broadleaf trees on the site, some of which were planted as part of the original hunting demesne in the 18th century.
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He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him, in a great house and spacious and beautiful demesne, he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.
Lay Morals
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No matter how intense work was in small demesnes, the level of productivity failed to increase.
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Well, my dear, on he went till he was almost within grip of her, cock-sure that he had nothing more to do than slip the bridle over her neck and secure her; but he made a bit of a mistake in his reckoning, for though she smelt and snoaked about him, just as if she didn't care a feed of oats whether he caught her or not, yet when he boulted over to hould her fast, she was off like a shot with her tail cocked, to the far end of the demesne, and Jack had to set off hot foot after here.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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The Chantrey demesne, by contrast, was definitely ragged, scrubby grass with the odd daffodil appearing as if by mistake.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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The demesne is a sylvan sanctuary for the wild creatures of the air and the wood, and they congregate here almost as they did at Walton Hall in the days of that most delightful of naturalists and travellers, whose adventurous gallop on the back of a cayman was the delight of all English-reading children forty years ago, or as they do now at Gosford.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
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Of the old Roman estate only a portion (differing again from parish to parish) remained absolutely under the lords control and was called his "demesne, that is" lords land ", from dominium.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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The demesne was cultivated directly under the supervision of the landlord or his agents, by the tenants, who owed labour-service as part of their rent.
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Where the lord of the manor had a demesne farm, the court appointed a reeve to supervise the farming activities, using labour services and collecting rents.
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The plantation administrator also hired day laborers at times to work the demesne, the fields directly exploited by the owners.
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All the crops on the demesne were to be cut, stacked, carried to the manor-house and stored in the grange.
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He advised us that, if we insisted on completing our journey, we should avoid Aigul and Count Ulanu's demesne at all costs.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
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Bipartite estates were divided between a central demesne and an array of tenant plots.
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Although it's impressive to see someone accurately use the word legal term "demesne" in a complete sentence, I'm not sure a game that is pure text is the best place for it.
PopMatters
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This office dated from the twelfth century and had originally been mainly concerned with the administration of the rulers' demesne lands.
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Keats is referring to epic poetry when he mentions Homer's'proud demesne '.