In The Wolf Man, Rains is the perfect lord of the manor with his patrician bearing and smooth manner with the town's officials. |
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An American government advisor kept abandoned deer, squirrels and even a bear as pets on the grounds of his manor. |
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A small manor estate might contain a dozen families while larger estates might include fifty or sixty. |
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The notorious exaggerator, in fact, put down just about everyone who was not German blue blood or to the manor born. |
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It quickly becomes apparent that the monster is the son of the local lord of the manor, placed under enchantment by his stepmother. |
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Rabbits who have taken up residence on the remains of a 14th century manor house in England are digging up fragments of a medieval glass window. |
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Then, too, he makes allowances for customs that differed from one manor to the next. |
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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 gillie's lodge to the east of the original manor consists of a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms and bathroom. |
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In 1123 Henry I granted the manor to the bishop of Lincoln for the endowment of a prebend. |
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The manor house stood above and to the left of the ring road on a tree-lined ridge at the top of a steeply sloping hillside. |
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He pouted playfully and walked out the back door towards the back lawn of the manor. |
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He had two hunting hounds that were to be part of the cry of hounds that the lord of the manor then kept. |
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Later it was owned perhaps by the lord of the manor, but no individual ownership, much less freehold, existed. |
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I know the manor, but not well enough to know the workings of my fool brother's mind. |
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Evidence shows that smallholders and cottagers were less likely to have kinsmen on the manor than large or middling tenants. |
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It's also possible to go round the old manor house, to poke your nose into all the barns and have a look at the old farm equipment. |
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If the grand old manor house is anything to go by we are in for a pleasant surprise. |
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He asked my opinion and considered it in decisions about the manor where we once had lived. |
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Those who wished to leave the manor had to seek permission or be penalized by a fine. |
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She confides in her old chum Marjory Frobisher that she wasn't keen on the former lord of the manor. |
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In fact, the 21-room building became so chock-a-block he chose to live in the Priest's House, a converted cottage near the manor. |
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The bailiff managed the property of the manor and superintended its cultivation. |
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We went back inside his stone-cold manor that seemed even more miserable to me now. |
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Minor criminals might also be punished in the village or manor by whipping, the stocks, or the pillory. |
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Coinage was introduced, manor houses, farms and villages were established, olive groves and vineyards were planted. |
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These timber posts were revealed under the great hall of the present stone manor and the demolished north end solar. |
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The great big hall in the manor had been filled with vampires and a few of Emma's closest, more understanding friends. |
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Cate put Midnight back in his stall in the stable, then slipped back into the manor, concealing her riding clothing in the back of her wardrobe. |
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But a few days later she was hemorrhaging and by the month's end, after weeks of fevers and sickness, the lady of the manor was dead. |
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In this version, the lord of the manor is to be entertained by the local people's staging of The Marriage of Figaro in the garden of his mansion. |
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The far end of the manor was covered in ivy, as if a spider had spun its green web onto it. |
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Some of its more prestigious venues have included a manor house in Castle Combe. |
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I believe this is the last part of the manor that lays unsearched, is it not? |
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He wraps her in a sheet like a corpse and carries her body to the abandoned abbey near the manor. |
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To the right of the manor stood some small buildings that were probably used as servants quarters, again made of bluestone. |
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It ought to be clear that life on the medieval manor was simple and uncomplicated. |
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It resembled a five-story, refurbished manor house with umber bricks and large turrets. |
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The peat produced in these turbaries was sometimes used within the manor or priory, but a large proportion was sold. |
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I caught sight of the familiar shrubbery and gardens, and even the shape of a monumental manor. |
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Serfs had simple diets and traveling minstrels and entertainers came to the manor. |
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Charles and Matthew, the two middle brothers who rarely left the manor, were taken back to their quarters by servants. |
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With the need for a new housekeeper, Stevens sees an opportunity to bring Miss Kenton, now separated from her husband, back to the manor. |
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The manor also boasts fine views of the local hospital, a stunning former garrison building. |
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Corina often found her job meaningless without a Master in the manor, but her loyalty to the Warrick descendant never wavered. |
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On the south side of the manor house, he planted a large alpine meadow with masses of scillas, daffodils, anemomes and fritillarias. |
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Bound to the land, they could not leave the manor without the lord's consent. |
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In 1449, she was expelled from the manor by Lord Moleyns's men, but not without a prodigious struggle. |
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Visible earthworks include roads, a fishpond, the foundation of a manor house, and 30 peasant houses set out in regular rows. |
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A manor house dating from before 1150 is Britain's oldest continually occupied house, it was claimed today. |
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The peeling frescoes that ornament the living room of a manor house are all that remain to suggest its colonial grandeur. |
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For the interior alterations and additions to the manor house, Robinson turned to several architects, firstly George Devey. |
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Agecroft Hall, a Tudor manor house, was shipped to the United States piece by piece and now draws 20,000 visitors each year. |
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Just a few miles away from Woolacombe stands Arlington Court, a Georgian manor house set in acres of rolling Devonshire parkland. |
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This appeared to carry water ducted from the hills north of the site, where North Farm now stands, to either the village or the manor house. |
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The Jacobean manor house is crumbling rapidly having lost its roof and now even its walls are in danger of falling. |
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Medieval descriptions of manor houses are rare and usually brief, but there is a wealth of later material. |
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The manor house was sold to the Rutsons, a family of Liverpool merchants, in 1839, but they mainly lived elsewhere. |
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Money for the estate and a derelict manor house will come from the Millennium Fund, the EU and direct government funds. |
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It is in a walled garden next to Sion Hill Hall, an elegant manor house built in 1912 by the York architect Walter H Brierley. |
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Before the first shaft was sunk in 1900, the only buildings on this sweep of coast were an ancient manor house and its barns. |
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The manor house and a group of older cottages are still there, part of a collection of beautiful things that makes La Sagesse special. |
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My room had been the parlor of an ancient manor house before the Occupation. |
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Dot and I took some manchets about the manor to sell for charity, although she did all the talking. |
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Three separate covered carts, pulled by four horses each, came up the drive and stopped in front of the manor. |
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By 1522, the manor house at Ightenhill, although standing, was in a ruinous condition. |
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In feudal times the serfs had to rely on the beneficence of the lord of the manor. |
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This was a tax paid to the lord of the manor when an animal had been sold by its owner. |
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This reliance on the local lord of the manor was all part of the feudal system introduced by William the Conqueror. |
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In medieval Europe, everyone from the lord of the manor to the village locals had a say in deciding who should wed. |
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For instance, the lords of the manor were learning to make better use of their serfs. |
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You can live like a lord in castles and elegant manor houses or stay in cozy village inns and luxury hotels in prime locations. |
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The manor house loomed large in the distance, a shadow in the sky to block the stars. |
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In the Svindersvik manor, the characteristics of Swedish rococo were boiled down to their essence and even enhanced by its minute size. |
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In the 17th century it developed into a general term for the lord of the manor, well below the level of nobility, but far above yeomen. |
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With this firmly resolved in her mind, she slipped from the manor proper and into the courtyard. |
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After the Norman Conquest the system of feudal landholding required the lord of the manor to provide a court for his tenants. |
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The reeve from a manor and six peasants were questioned for every manor visited. |
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Serfs worked the land and produced the goods that the lord and his manor needed. |
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Ashleworth church, barn, and Court comprise an excellent example of an Augustinian rectorial manor. |
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The advowson therefore can be discounted as a guide to the descent of the manor or part manor. |
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I was actually sheltered during a heavy rainstorm in a stone manor house belonging to a buccaneer. |
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Where the lord of the manor held a court leet, the jurisdiction of the hundred was exercised in that court, and the fines collected were payable to the lord. |
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Refined, elegant, and to the manor born, betty is everything that Don is not. |
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Another island tale purports that there was once a banquet arranged at the manor for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. |
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She is not to the manor born, not having met her husband at an Andover dance. |
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When Pawson first visited the site five years ago, it comprised a derelict Baroque manor house with ranges of agricultural buildings that framed a large courtyard. |
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Every manor in England was run by a reeve on behalf of the landlord. |
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I remounted my anxious horse and began to ride back towards my manor. |
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So, the peasants paid taxes to the king, taxes to the church, taxes and dues to the lord of the manor, as well as numerous indirect taxes on wine, salt, and bread. |
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It seems that a ha-ha has been banked up to hide the public thoroughfare from which one turns down the private avenue of limes to approach the manor house. |
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When the original hall was built, it was itself a departure from the medieval style of mansion and was the first manor house in the county made of brick and stone. |
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In 1502 the manor house was sold to Sir Henry Clifford, of Skipton Castle. |
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In the past, the country manor house welcomed gentry for deer hunting. |
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The road meandered down to the pond, lined by birches on either side, to the manor house, which stood to the left of and slightly behind the house as one approached it. |
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The knightly class soon ceased to be purely professional soldiers and became landed proprietors in their own right, acting as seigneurs or lords of the manor. |
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A quick visit to the King's seneschal confirmed that he could indeed reclaim his men, and that they would be dispatched to the manor at Cosh that afternoon. |
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The office is standard Universal issue, sort of a pseudo English manor house. |
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Although free to leave the manor at 21, Isaac spent his entire life with the Sylvester descendants. |
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He stayed with Royal family friend Count Tibor Kalnoky in a 16th Century manor house. |
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The 10-bedroom manor house has its own staff and a well-stocked wine cellar. |
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Doesn't this manor belong to Rastafarians, not Trustafarians? |
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Urn Burial is a bedside book, a nightstand book, one that begs to be read in a wind-lashed, lightning-struck manor. |
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With plain, unoriginal style, it depicted the front side of a manor. |
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It reminds one of those commemorative busts associated with Caesar's and Augustus's Rome, or of a statue made for a niche in a European manor house. |
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The villa consisted of extensive grounds, a manor house and outbuildings. |
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Treven Hall had been an Elizabethan, half-timbered manor house. |
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The field was once part of a terrace of the Whitton Dene manor house and it seems that the trouble began when it was filled in with material to even it out. |
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Over another is a honey-stoned manor and a Grade 1-listed Gothic orangery. |
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Emma stormed out of the manor and collapsed on the front stoop in tears. |
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Soon, the activity within the manor had subsided to an even drone. |
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The rolling green hills of the Cotswolds, dotted with manor houses, chocolate-box villages and bustling market towns, have always been popular with upmarket buyers. |
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The manor, with S. Hall, belongs to the coheiresses of the Baroness Braye. |
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The rectory continued, usually as a sinecure, until it was impropriated in 1546 to Christ Church, Oxford, and soon afterwards to the secular lords of Sudbury manor. |
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This marriage of like souls did not mean that Ursula could now sit back and pick up her palette and poster paints while they lived in a country manor in Europe. |
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The route skirts the Folk Museum for a free peek at the ye-olde shops, the heather thatch and the splendid cruck style manor house that was reassembled here. |
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He incorporates the church's contributions throughout, whether considering monastic institutions as landlords or parish priests' glebes as part of the English manor. |
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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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A patrol gathered before a grand old manor house on the grounds. |
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Unless, of course, it's talking about buying the services of a lumpen eared crew in a white transit so as you can really boss it about your manor, guv. |
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The manor passed about 1572 to John Brooke, who developed coal mining in his manor on a substantial scale. |
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In the 13th century, Oldham was documented as a manor held from the Crown by a family surnamed Oldham, whose seat was at Werneth Hall. |
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At the time of the Norman Conquest the manor was held by a Saxon thegn, Gamel. |
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John Byron bought the manor in 1638 and it was sold by the poet, Lord Byron, in 1823, to the Deardens, who hold the title. |
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In 1316 there is mention of a fulling mill, a soke mill where all the manor corn was milled and a market. |
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Leeds was a manor and township in the large ancient parish of Leeds St Peter, in the Skyrack wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. |
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Before 1066 the manor of Wakefield belonged to Edward the Confessor and it passed to William the Conqueror after the Battle of Hastings. |
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During the English Civil War, the Cliffords, the lords of the manor were Royalists, but their subjects were not. |
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Meols Hall, a manor house, home of the Hesketh family is open to the public for a limited period each year. |
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In around 1088 Odo gave the manor, church and lands at Hornsea to the Benedictine St Mary's Abbey, York. |
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His family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. |
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Among his other works is The Grey Room, the plot of which is centered on a haunted room in an English manor house. |
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These would be appurtenant rights, that is the ownership of rights belonged to tenancies of particular plots of land held within a manor. |
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The manor of Brent belonged to Buckfast Abbey from the time of the foundation of the abbey in the early 11th century. |
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On the south of the churchyard is the manor house, part of which is 15th century. |
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The manor house and stables were within a fortified bailey, with a tall round turret in each corner. |
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The Earl of Chester's manor of Macclesfield was very large, and its boundary extended to Disley. |
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The manor, having been handed down to the eldest son, the rest of the valley was divided between the younger sons of the Gilpins for generations. |
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This assumption has later been proven wrong, and studies of peasant plague mortality from manor rolls have returned much higher rates. |
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Eccle Riggs is a Victorian manor house to the south of town that is now a leisure club. |
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The manor was granted by Alice de Romilly to Adam de Derwentwater before 1216, and subsequently passed to the Radclyffe family through marriage. |
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The earliest surviving official record of the town is the market charter of 1276 granted to the lord of the manor, Thomas de Derwentwater. |
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Its original name derived from the Knights Templar, who used to own a manor in Warwick. |
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In medieval times the township was within the manor of Castlerigg and Derwentwater. |
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But at long last the summer, high summer, was upon them, with the promised arrival of the four firstcomers to the old manor house. |
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Wardley Hall is an early medieval manor house and a Grade I listed building in Wardley. |
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On his death in Rhodes, the manor remained with Elias' son, whose family had by that time adopted the name of the village as its family name. |
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Worsley was, originally, the largest manor of the seven ancient manors of the Bridgewater Estates. |
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At about the same time, Brewster arranged for a congregation to meet privately at the Scrooby manor house. |
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It is the modern term for a manor, but lacks the latter's now abolished jurisdictional authority. |
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The manor contained seventeen houses built inside the courtyard for nobles and family members and was separated from its supporting villas. |
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Several books including The Ghosts of Knighton Gorges have been published especially covering the ghosts of the manor. |
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When Philip besieged Aumale in Normandy, Richard grew tired of waiting and seized the manor, although the act was opposed by the Church. |
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A coat of arms dated older than the manor house also decorated the windows. |
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The other natives of Albert Square were equally deluded, either that or the average memory span on the manor must fall shy of 12 months. |
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Amongst fortified manor houses, those given the title of castle are included, whilst many others were more lightly fortified and are excluded. |
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Knighton Gorges Manor was one of the grandest manor houses on the Isle of Wight. |
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The manor passed to the Blount family which held it until the end of the 14th century. |
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On the outskirts of town is Trereife House, a grade II listed Queen Anne style, manor house which now offers accommodation and hosts events. |
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The manor included Penzance as well as parts of Madron, Paul, St Buryan and Sancreed. |
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The most likely reason for this is that in 1086 Hamon, dapifer and Sheriff of Kent, owned the manor and, perhaps illegally, annexed it to Kent. |
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When asked to come to the king's manor to pay a trading tax on their goods, they murdered the official. |
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The residence was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to resemble an English country manor, with the old chancery facing the street. |
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Sempringham is noted as the home of Gilbert of Sempringham, the son of the lord of the manor. |
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The marriage brought the manor of Sutton Valence in Kent into Montfort's possession. |
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His demand could be accepted because the manor, lying in Wales, is under Welsh law. |
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Pentre Ifan is the name of an ancient manor in the civil parish of Nevern, Pembrokeshire, Wales. |
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The Ayscough family acquired the manor by marriage in 1539, then Thomas Jenison bought it in 1579 when the Ayscough family had no heirs. |
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In each manor there is the same division into land in demesne and land in villainage, the inland and the geneat land. |
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Following the Black Death there was a change of ownership of the manor to the Neville family by 1367, but in 1391 Robert Hansard claimed it back. |
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English resistance was reduced to a few isolated castles, walled towns and fortified manor houses. |
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In April, Mary was placed in the stricter custody of Sir Amias Paulet, and at Christmas she was moved to a moated manor house at Chartley. |
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Perceiving her as a threat, Elizabeth had her confined in various castles and manor houses in the interior of England. |
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It was Chauncey DeGrandis, lord of the manor, trying in vain to assert his lord-dom. |
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De Brus spent Christmas at de Verdon's manor of Loughsewdy, consuming its supplies entirely and before leaving, razing it to the ground. |
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It was to be here that Robert would build the manor house that would serve as his favoured residence during the final years of his reign. |
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The Grade I Elizabethan manor house is hidden in a 3,500 acre wooded estate, close to the chocolate-box village of Gittisham. |
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A naturally defensible position was identified perched high above the River Seine, an important transport route, in the manor of Andeli. |
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Late in 1956, the family moved to the manor house in the Somerset village of Combe Florey. |
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Visitors to the website are able to look up a place name and see the index entry made for the manor, town, city or village. |
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He lived in that manor the rest of his life, filming scenes from The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut there as well. |
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It included land around Swansea Bay as far as the River Tawe, the manor of Kilvey beyond the Tawe, and the peninsula itself. |
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This Grade I listed medieval manor house attracts over 50,000 visitors each year. |
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The first, he says, about thirty years before, had many inhabitants, many holding leasehold estates under the lord of the manor for three lives. |
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He opened his own restaurant, Nutters, in Lancashire, at the age of 21 on the site of an 18th Century manor house. |
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You can live as if to the manor born in this property to let in beautiful Corve Dale. |
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The day included guided tours of the Grade II-listed manor house, walks around the gardens and cream teas in the lakeside marquee. |
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At the time of the parliamentary enclosures, each manor had seen de facto consolidation of farms into multiple large landholdings. |
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This was sometimes undertaken by small landowners, but more often by large landowners and lords of the manor. |
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The manor of Huddersfield was owned by the de Lacy family until 1322, at which it reverted to royal ownership. |
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Originally a medieval manor house, having a main block with forward projecting wings, it burned down in 1716 and was rebuilt by John Aislabie. |
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Later the church replaced the manor court as the rural administrative centre, and levied a local tax on produce known as a tithe. |
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Queen Mary granted Tallis a lease on a manor in Kent that provided a comfortable annual income. |
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Even in castles and manor houses space was limited, and rooms including the great hall were used for other functions beyond dining. |
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Filmer's father died in November 1629 and therefore Filmer took over his father's manor house and estate. |
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The manor was the principal unit of local administration and justice in the early rural economy. |
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An interesting example is Gerefa which outlines the duties of a reeve on a large manor estate. |
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One practice in example was for a group to visit a local manor, and 'sing out' the lord. |
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The moat at Bear's Rails contained the manor house of Wychamere, the home of William of Wykeham while he was building the castle. |
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In 1580 Drake purchased Buckland Abbey, a large manor house near Yelverton in Devon, via intermediaries from Sir Richard Greynvile. |
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Windsor Castle is noted in the Domesday Book under the entry for Clewer, the neighbouring manor to Windsor. |
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Germany offers a variety of more than 25,000 castles and palaces and thousands of manor houses. |
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In October 1746 Mary had taken over the lease of the Prebendal estate in Aylesbury, and with it the position of lady of the manor, from her mother. |
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As the peasants and serfs lived and worked on farms that they rented from the lord of the manor, they also needed the permission of the lord to marry. |
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Examples of such great estates are Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, England, and Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire built to replace the former manor house of Woodstock. |
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The manor house was on the edge of the deer park, on the west of the town. |
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While many villagers received plots in the newly enclosed manor, for small landholders this compensation was not always enough to offset the costs of enclosure and fencing. |
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Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows. |
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Here is Palladianism rechauffe for people who have made their money in the modern world but want to pretend that they are living as lords of the manor in a feudal society. |
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The tenants of the manor of Epworth held themselves wronged by enclosures which had taken place under the schemes fur draining Hatfield Chase and the Isle of Axholme. |
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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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Dixon, who was finally promoted to sergeant in 1964, policed his 'Dock Green' manor until May 1976 and 'Evening, all' had become a national catchphrase. |
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The manor was owned by the de Morvilles until 1256 when Ralf de Gorges acquired it by marriage, which is where the name Knighton Gorges comes from. |
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He bought the manor of Saddleworth in 1791, built a wood mill at Springhead, and coincidentally was a key member of the Standedge canal tunnel company. |
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Culham is known to have existed by the reign of King Coenwulf of Mercia early in the 9th century, by which time the manor belonged to Abingdon Abbey. |
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Under these difficult circumstances, a male household member seems better suited to taking on the responsibilities of leadership than the lord of the manor. |
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Rebuilt in the 1990s, the white stone building stands amid modern brick structures that attempt to recapture the style of More's former manor on the site. |
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Its older name was Lang Holme, and 800 years ago it was the centre of the manor of Windermere and later, in effect, of a moiety of the barony of Kendal. |
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Within its boundaries, the smaller subdivision of the pagus was the manor. |
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The Deardens who were lords of the manor were among the local coal owners. |
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The manor of Scrivelsby in England has, since the Middle Ages, been held by the Marmion family in grand serjeanty, in exchange for their service as King's or Queen's Champion. |
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He habitually wrote while standing, and his desk can be seen in the manor. |
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A statement from the owners, Portsmouth City Council, said the authority will speak to the underbidder and other interested parties to try to sell the manor. |
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A little to the east of the Roman sites the first Saxon camp was made in a clearing in the woods where the church, manor house and the first village were later built. |
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Castles and smaller manor houses often had moats, portcullises and crenellations designed for archers to stand guard and pick off approaching enemies. |
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The Botreaux family had long held the manor of Molland at the southern edge of Exmoor, but were probably resident mainly at North Cadbury in Somerset. |
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In 1276 the jurors of Brushford manor made a complaint about John de Camera in the Court of Exchequer in which he was described as forester of Exmoor. |
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At the rich end of the scale the manor houses and palaces were awash with large, elaborately prepared meals, usually for many people and often accompanied by entertainment. |
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Lords responded to these offences by amercing them in the manor court, the revenues of which could provide a twentieth, or even a higher proportion of estate income. |
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Existing as a manor in the 15th century, Hathershaw Hall was the home of a Royalist family in the 17th century who lost part of their possessions due to the English Civil War. |
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