| Their ability to do so was assumed to be proportional to the size of their landholdings. |
| The commissioners were major lay and ecclesiastical lords with only small landholdings in the shires of the circuit. |
| Moreover, despite the butchers' sizable landholdings, the sixteenth-century speculative real estate boom in Antwerp passed them by. |
| One local resident blamed environmental groups who have large landholdings in the area for reducing livestock levels to encourage forest growth. |
| Ireland was one of the first countries in Europe in which peasants could purchase their landholdings. |
| The history of this property in many ways mirrors the experience of large landholdings all over Australia. |
