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It was an idyllic spot, as I soon discovered, of fine rolling country, well wooded and watered, the road of macadam, rising slowly from the entrance gates, turning here and there through a succession of natural parks, along the borders of a lake of considerable size, toward the higher hills at the further end of the estate, among which, my companion told me, were built the Manor house and stables.
They where consequently judges in civil causes, determined before the manorial tribunal." 2 Middle Ages, 481. Stephens adopts as correct the following quotations from Blackstone: "The Court-Baron is a court incident to every manor in the kingdom, to be holden by the steward within the said manor."
For never were man and woman truer to each other than these, and never was a lady of the Manor kinder to the poor, or a lord freer of hand to his vassals. He would bluster sometimes, and string a peasant up by the heels, but his gallows was never used; and, what was much in the minds of the people, the Cure did not refuse the woman the sacrament.
For it was at that moment that there came to her the conviction, and one which never faltered, that Charles Nagle had done no injury to James Mottram. And there also came to her then the swift understanding of what others would believe, were there to be found in the private chapel of Edgecombe Manor that which now lay on the ground behind her, close to her feet.
"Now," said George, as they stood on the platform, "whither away? Which direction?" "I want to see," said she, "a real, genuine, old English country home." "A castle?" "No, not a castle." "Oh, I know what you want. Something like Haddon Hall, or that sort of thing. An old manor house.
She became serious at once so quickly that he was ill prepared for it, and could do little but stare and pluck at the tassel of his sword; for he was embarrassed before this maiden, who changed as quickly as the currents change under the brow of the Couperon Cliff, behind which lay his manor-house of Rozel. "I have visited at your manor, Monsieur of Rozel.
She folded it again in two little notes of Anthony's, written in pencil, and placed it in her bosom. There was the little china box, too Dorcas's present, the pearl ear-rings, and a silk purse, with fifteen seven-shilling pieces in it, the presents Sir Christopher had made her on her birthday, ever since she had been at the Manor. Should she take the earrings and the seven-shilling pieces?
"Not for ten months," was her reply. "Why do you ask?" "Wouldn't he like to be nearer you and Zoe? It's twelve miles to Beauharnais," he replied. "Are you thinking of offering him another place at the Manor?" she asked sharply. "Well, there is the new cheese-factory not to manage, but to keep the books! He's doing them all right for the lumber-firm. I hear that he " "I don't want it.
He had newly purchased that manor, and having one hundred and fifty acres of ground, formerly park and wood ground lying in our parish, conceived, he had right of common in our parish of Walton: thereupon, he puts three hundred sheep upon the common; part whereof I impounded: he replevins them, and gave me a declaration. I answered it. The trial was to be at the Assizes at Kingston in April 1664.
He told me frankly that he should not be able to give Agatha a large portion at her marriage, nor could he leave her anything considerable at his death. Harden Manor, with its rich revenues, was all entailed on his son. "So that I am glad, Sir Edgar," he said, "she is likely to marry a rich man. She has been brought up in all luxury, and would never be able to bear privation.
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