Efficiency was influenced by whether an estate was held in demesne by the tenant-in-chief and who the tenant-in-chief was. |
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In terms of tenancy, nine estates were held in demesne and nine had a single sub-tenant. |
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Maud, William the Conqueror's queen, held the town and soke as part of the king's demesne. |
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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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There is little information in Domesday Book on peasant production but a good deal on demesne inputs and output. |
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This relatively open setting allowed for unimpeded views from the villa across the demesne. |
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In France, the Capetian kings generally held on to such lands, adding them to the royal demesne. |
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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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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 plantation administrator also hired day laborers at times to work the demesne, the fields directly exploited by the owners. |
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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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The most common way of doing that was to increase compulsory labour services on the demesne land itself. |
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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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All kings drew resources from demesne estates and received regular food-rents, services, and payments in money or kind. |
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The famous Castletown obelisk, for example, is on land that forms part of the Carton demesne. |
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Bipartite estates were divided between a central demesne and an array of tenant plots. |
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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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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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Thin flax linen was only used in the Harrachov demesne for the traditional aprons known as fertoch. |
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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 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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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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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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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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In 1567 Vratislav of Pernstejn became the lord of the Litomysl demesne, and it was he who built the renaissance castle. |
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The Rossmore demesne is an imposing gothic ruin situated a mile south outside the town. |
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Under serfdom, peasants were not paid for their produce on demesne. |
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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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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 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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The burgeoning viticultures of Burgundy and Gascony proved incompatible with traditional demesne lordship and encouraged sharecropping and peasant initiative. |
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The death in 1271 of Alphonse of Poitiers and his wife, heiress of Toulouse, enabled Philip early in his reign to annex their vast holdings to the royal demesne. |
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Beginning with Conrad II, the Salian kings used ministeriales to administer their demesne, as household officers at court, and as garrisons for their castles. |
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For the lords of the demesne, who had been the Wallenstein-Warttemberg family since 1758, the fire of 1775 provided an impetus to embark on large-scale building alterations to the castle and its immediate vicinity. |
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A new alternative was to lease the demesne to paid managers or sharecroppers, but this practice spread more slowly in France than in neighbouring countries. |
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Revenue from the demesne formed the bulk of Henry's income in England, although taxes were used heavily in the first 11 years of his reign. |
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Ducal authority was the strongest on the frontier near the Capetian royal demesne. |
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New sheriffdoms enabled the King to effectively administer royal demesne land. |
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Revenue from the royal demesne was inflexible and had been diminishing slowly since the Norman conquest. |
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The said bishop Ofbaldiston cut and sold all the alder wood upon the demesne at Rose, with large quantities of oak and ash, to the value of many hundred pounds. |
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The main source of funding for Philip's army was from the royal demesne. |
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Although within the royal demesne, Normandy retained some specificity. |
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The Latin term villa regia which Bede used of the site suggests an estate centre as the functional heart of a territory held in the King's demesne. |
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