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Efficiency was influenced by whether an estate was held in demesne by the tenant-in-chief and who the tenant-in-chief was.
In terms of tenancy, nine estates were held in demesne and nine had a single sub-tenant.
Maud, William the Conqueror's queen, held the town and soke as part of the king's demesne.
All the crops on the demesne were to be cut, stacked, carried to the manor-house and stored in the grange.
There is little information in Domesday Book on peasant production but a good deal on demesne inputs and output.
This relatively open setting allowed for unimpeded views from the villa across the demesne.
In France, the Capetian kings generally held on to such lands, adding them to the royal demesne.
In Piedmont and Naples the nobles were the principal beneficiaries from the alienations of tax revenues and demesne lands.
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.
The plantation administrator also hired day laborers at times to work the demesne, the fields directly exploited by the owners.
For example, arable agriculture on the demesne centred on the use of oxen ploughteams and their complement of manpower.
The most common way of doing that was to increase compulsory labour services on the demesne land itself.
The amiable and insolvent owner of the 300-acre estate died after being ambushed near his demesne.
All kings drew resources from demesne estates and received regular food-rents, services, and payments in money or kind.
The famous Castletown obelisk, for example, is on land that forms part of the Carton demesne.
Bipartite estates were divided between a central demesne and an array of tenant plots.
The grotto will be restored to its original form and repairs will be carried out on the walls surrounding the demesne.
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.
Thin flax linen was only used in the Harrachov demesne for the traditional aprons known as fertoch.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
The landlord is enabled to sell his demesne, and repurchase it at a profit.
It is the gentry who offer a rich demesne, vineland and tilth, to Meleager, imploring him to take part in their war.
He lived by himself with his niece Albine in an old house on the border of the demesne.
I speculated what demesne this might be, and I realized that it was probably Lavedan.
Thereafter it was his purpose to take his bride home to his Sicilian demesne.
All this land might be in one large tract, or the demesne might be separate from the other.
Inside this low gate you are within the demesne, and I may bid you welcome to Kilgobbin.
We often come across such base customs as the payment of merchet in connexion with the 'villain socmen' of ancient demesne.
But first, suppose we leave the boggart's demesne, and pay a visit to the theatre of his strange doings.
Gods, whom Art ever must avow, Ruled the marmoreal sky's demesne.
Or have the Trojans been allotting you a demesne of passing richness, fair with orchard lawns and corn lands, if you should slay me?
But did any hold of the king in socage, except on his demesne lands?
The name arose from its being the western terminus of the demesne lands.
The men of ancient demesne are men of free blood holding in villainage.
This child was the daughter of some custodian of the demesne before me.
A peremptory order to surrender the house and demesne was also issued.
I of course could not resist such temptation, and entered the demesne.
Not that fishing lodge beside the river, in an angle of your own demesne?
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