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...le of Jersey, which lies in the sea, toward the west, and is a part of the fief of Normandy. In the isle of 5 Wace Jersey I was born, and to Caen I w... ...forth from the country, so that they may travel into divers lands, seeking fiefs and houses of their own. Go out they must, since the earth cannot con... ...m prison, Vortigern granted Sussex, Essex, and Middlesex to Hengist as his fief, besides that earldom of Kent which he had held before. T o remem ber... ...ar these tidings, and at once set forth for Scotland. He abandoned all his fiefs, and fled straightway beyond the Humber. He purposed to crave such ai... ...sed his soldiers to their homes, making viscounts and provosts to keep his fiefs in peace, and to ensure his revenues and rent. He sought masons and c... ...ourt. There he gave them again their heritage, and confirmed them in their fiefs and rents. Now there were three brethren of right good birth and high... ...m king of that realm. Scotland was given to Aguisel, who claimed it as his fief. As for Lot, who had the king’s sister to wife, Arthur confirmed him i... ...e fell on death, Sichelm had appointed Lot to succeed him in his realm and fief. The crown was Lot’s by right, even as Sichelm pro claimed, since Lot... ...mage, he became Arthur’s man, and owned that of Arthur’s grace he held his fief. King Arthur rejoiced greatly at this adventure, and of the conquest h...

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...have none, they laugh at you there. What will become of your name and your fiefs and your seigniories? A child is our natural company; it is a delight... ... in the place of the said Gauttier the son of the Sire de Jallanges, whose fief was held from Roche-Corbon. He was a young boy named Rene, approaching... ...hiquon.” “And the quit rent of the Rue St. Denys?” “T o Chiquon.” “And the fief of Ville Parisis?” “T o Chiquon.” “But,” said the captain, with his bi...

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...million their farmers have advanced to them? Before 1789 the tenure of the fiefs subject to the castle of Guaisnic was still worth fifty thousand fran... ...s and a few outlying farms of over ten thousand francs a year. Such is the fief of Les Touches, from which the Revolution lopped its feudal rights. Th... ...tinue to call it “the chateau,” and they would still say “seigneur” if the fief were not now in the female line. When Felicite set about restoring Les...

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...armour enclosed.” 122 Ivanhoe “Front-de-Boeuf must prepare to restore his fief of Ivanhoe,” said De Bracy, who, having discharged his part honourably... ...hem. For the rest, sirs, I hope none here will deny my right to confer the fiefs of the crown upon the faithful fol- lowers who are around me, and rea... ...ave your willing sanction, good Cedric,” said Prince John, “to confer this fief upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of ... ...all not incur his father’s farther displeasure by again entering upon that fief.” “By St Anthony!” answered the black-brow’d giant, “I will consent th... ...ples to put to death, un- der any circumstances, the rival claimant of the fief of Ivanhoe. On the other hand, to liberate a suitor preferred by the L...

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...this,” he thought within himself. The Dame of Rupelmonde was lady of seven fiefs beside the barony of Gavres. The girl felt the longing for life in he...

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...ident in his agent, came to salute his lord, thinking to do honour for his fief. Thereupon the king said to him, in a jocular manner, that the Spanish... ...he should have for certain a veritable fay, and that he would yet gain the fief. The king was too courteous and gallant a knight to refuse this reques... ... said to himself, “This is to save my father from punishment! this for the fief! this for the letting and selling! this for the forest of Azay! item f... ...ase being an allodial case, must be brought before your council, since the fief of Azay is held from the crown.” “Pasques dieu!” replied the Regent wi...

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...nary office; it had been a post of honor with duties to dis- charge. Their fief had always been their domain. Provincial nobles were they in every sen... ...rned forty. Mlle. d’Esgrignon, his half-sister, saved some portions of the fief, thanks to the young steward of the family, who claimed on her behalf ...

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... granted him arms and the title of Sire (or Lord) de la Baudraye, with the fief of the old and genuine La Baudrayes. The descendants of the famous Cap... ...he Department This Lucullus of the Milauds, when he died, left his son the fief, stripped indeed of its fines and dues, but graced with weathercocks b...

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...sh interests,” replied Chiverni. “Un- der Louis XI. the idea was the great Fiefs—” “Make heresy an axe,” said Albert de Gondi, “and you will escape th... ... commerce and 240 Catherine dé Medici alliance which shall recognize your fiefs in Piedmont, the Milanais, and Naples, where you have rights. These, ...

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... the Empire. “Bonaparte,” he said, “makes dukes. He has created Impe- rial fiefs, he will therefore make counts. Malin is determined to be Comte de Go...

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...ight was the world that he weighed in his hands! Oh, heavy the tale of his fiefs and his lands! He has gone from the guddee and put on the shroud, And...

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...Schlangenwald an old intimate of the Markgraf, but Swabia was claimed as a fief of 177 Yo n g e Wurtemburg, so that Ebbo’s direct homage to the Emper... ...I could intrust my child or my lands. The old Wildschloss castle is a male fief, and would return to you, but there are domains since granted that wil...

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...an exile, though he is Etzel’s mightiest vassal, with castles and lands in fief. He may have been introduced, as Wilmanns (“Anz.” xviii 101) thinks, t... ...s been given to Rudeger, of which he doth hold such store from the king in fief? Not one sturdy 240 The Nibelungenlied stroke hath he dealt in all th...

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...ricians must continue to justify their existence. There is a sort of moral fief held on a tenure of service ren- dered to the sovereign, and here in F...

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...round world as their playground; they held the earth and the great seas in fief; there was no one to let or to hinder. They two belonged to each other...

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...ll those, which, having belonged to your mother, reverted to him as a male fief. In this he may have thought that he was acting with extreme generosit...

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...- tain republic complete for five hundred years. Originally the lands were fiefs of the Holy Roman Em- pire, the city municipalities owning the Empero...

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...sed, and has suffered much. It is a piteous thing when our little imperial fiefs go to the spindle side!’ ‘What are her lands?’ asked Malcolm. ‘Hainau...

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...hake off the yoke of the house of Gondreville. Arcis ought to be no more a fief of the liberals than a fief of the Cinq- Cygnes. Advanced opinions wer...

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... many of the great families, promised to obtain the erection of the little fief of la Chanterie into a barony; and they kept their word. The aunt of t...

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...face, apparently unarmed, and certainly unattended, through the hostile town. The Red Douglas, pot-bellied Kuma, having perhaps heard word of the deba...

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...atter of the murder is hushed up If you consent to yield his Holiness Your fief that lies beyond the Pincian gate.— It needed all my interest in the c... ... CENCI: CENCI: CENCI: CENCI: CENCI: For which Aldobrandino owes you now My fief beyond the Pincian.—Cardinal, One thing, I pray you, recollect hencefo...

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... perverse plea- sure in boasting that the barony of Bradwardine was a male fief, the first charter having been given at that early period when women w... ...g the command of his king and overlord, who may alter the destination of a fief at pleasure, the old gentle- man seems well reconciled to.’ ‘ And what...

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...municipality or of their liege lord—the lords of the greater or the lesser fiefs, were brought before the king and guarded in the Conciergerie. And as...

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... France. Ville- aux-Fayes, now the seat of the sub-prefecture, then a mere fief, was a dependency of Soulanges, like Les Aigues, Ronquerolles, Cerneux...

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...n nursed in the conception that Italy (or at least Lombardy) was a natural fief of Austria, allied by in- stinct and by interest to the holders of the...

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...lled at the Bridge of Chatillon, that he held the estate of Bridgefield in fief on tenure of military service to the head of his family. She did not k...

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... to his mother, and where the great Bossuet had formerly lodged. This is a fief, of which a like succession of proprietors would render nobility diffi...

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...on the title of vidame, which only marks a vassal, and the titles which by fief emanate from the King. Yet because the few Vidames who have been known...

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... of the Sieur de Montmorency, to whom, by the death of the said Jehan, the fiefs of Sacchez and other places would return, according to the deed of te... ...he journey, had his home in the duchy of Burgundy, in which he had certain fiefs, and was a younger son of the house of Villers-la-Faye (Villa in Fago...

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... Richard’s Song I FOLLOWED my Duke ere I was a lover, To take from England fief and fee; But now this game is the other way over— But now England hath...

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...n, and has a young family to care for. My brother Guichard will inherit my fiefs; and if I 232 Robert Louis Stevenson am not in error, that will cont...

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...and against express pledges, the English carried war into their prisoner’s fief, not only France, but all thinking men in Christendom, were roused to ...

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...he canton of Berne it is so high as a sixth part of the price of all noble fiefs, and a tenth part of that of all ignoble ones. {Memoires concernant l...