Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.

Partly this was land that had always belonged to the Crown, while other parts were sold or donated like the more than 10 % of the island ( located in the northern bush area, with some of the largest remaining kauri forests ) that was gifted to the Crown by farmer Max Burrill in 1984.

Meanwhile the southern part of what became the parish of St. Anne, Soho, was sold by the Crown in parcels in the 16th and 17th centuries, with part going to Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester.

During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Anjou, the Crown of Aragon, the Crown of Castile, and Spain.

However, in 1420 the city was sold along with the remaining territory for 100, 000 florins to the Crown of Aragon, replaced by Spain after 1479 on the joining of the Aragonese and Castilian thrones.

The palaces belong to the Crown ; they are held in trust for future rulers, and cannot be sold by the monarch.

A reformulated version of Chero-Cola was first sold as Royal Crown Cola in 1934.

In 2001, all international RC-branded businesses were sold to Cott Beverages of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and are operated as Royal Crown Cola International, which handles RC Cola products outside the United States.

Bavaria Crown is sold in Ireland.

This is all in his or her position as sovereign, and not as an individual ; all such property is held by the Crown in perpetuity and cannot be sold by the sovereign without the proper advice and consent of his or her ministers.

Breeding rights were sold for Secretariat before he won the Triple Crown.

Already in the late 1980s, some common services once set up in the expectation of economies of scale, such as the Property Services Agency or the Crown Suppliers, were being dismantled or sold off.

In 1553 the Lady Chapel became a school, the Great Gatehouse a town jail, some other buildings passed to the Crown, and the Abbey Church was sold to the town for £ 400 in 1553 by King Edward VI to be the church of the parish.

Between 1796 and 1798, were sold through a Crown Grant to Richard Beasley, with the Six Nations Indians continuing to hold the mortgage on the lands.

After the Dukes of Cieszyn had become vassals of the Bohemian kings in 1327 and the Duchy of Oświęcim was sold to the Polish Crown in 1457, the Biała River for centuries marked the border between the Bohemian crown land of Silesia within the Holy Roman Empire and the Lesser Polish region of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Wood panelling from the room in the Crown and Treaty public house located in Oxford Road by the Grand Union Canal, was sold in 1924 to an American who installed them in his office in the Empire State Building.

The properties went to the Crown ; some were kept, some were subsequently given or sold to Henry's supporters, others went to his new monasteries of Syon Abbey and the Carthusians at Sheen Priory, others went to educational purposes.

This left just over half to be available to be sold at market rates ( very little property was given away by Henry to favoured servants, and any that was tended to revert to the Crown once their recipients fell out of favour, and were indicted for treason ).

The French Crown Jewels were sold in 1885 on the orders of the Third French Republic, with only a token number, with their precious stones replaced by glass, held on to for historic reasons and displayed by the Louvre.

The term resumption is a reflection of the fact that, as a matter of Australian law, all land was originally owned by the Crown before it was sold, leased or granted and that, through the act of compulsory acquisition, the Crown is " resuming " possession.

The blue-tinted sunglasses ( Persol 714 ) worn by McQueen in the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair sold at a Bonhams & Butterfields auction in Los Angeles for $ 70, 200 in 2006.

In 1769, Crown property on Møn was sold which allowed farmers to buy their own land and wealthy individuals to create estates and begin to settle on the island.

Two nearby pubs, The Egypt Cottage and Rose & Crown, became affectionately known as Studio 5 because of the amount of time that the station's staff spent in them.

The Triple Crown honour has long been a feature of the tournament, dating back to the original Home Nations Championship, but the physical Triple Crown Trophy has been awarded only since 2006.

Multiple parties owned the content of those original publications, so Iron Crown wasn't able to republish the originals.

Among the original crown jewels were Alfred the Great's State Crown described as " Gould wyerworke set with slight stones and two little bells " which once melted down the gold that it contained fetched £ 248 and 10 shillings, while the little 11th century crown of Queen Edith only realised £ 16.

In 1660 when a replacement crown called St Edward's Crown was cast for the coronation of Charles II the gold from the aforementioned King Alfred's Crown ( the original crown of Edward the Confessor ) was used, so presumably even after the various jewels had been melted down strenuous efforts were made to recover their components.

Some of the Crown Jewels and the original Thrones of the Kingdom of Hawaii reside within the custody of the Bishop Museum.

The original villages of El Dorado Hills include Park, Ridgeview, Saint Andrews, Crown, Governors, Stonegate, Franciscan, Marina, and Lake Hills Estates.

Scenes from the original The Thomas Crown Affair were filmed at the Salem glider airport, which is now Campbell's Scottish Highlands Golf Course.

The Town of Crown Point is an original town of the county, established in 1786 before Essex County was created.

The track became notable as the original home of 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes champion Smarty Jones, who placed second in the Belmont Stakes, narrowly missing the Triple Crown.

In 1672 he resigned his peerages to the Crown in return for a new patent with original precedency and extending the limitation to his daughters.

Their original and famous ground Crown Flatt stood on Leeds Road, at Earlsheaton, for many years until it was burned down, by arsonists in the late 1980s.

Islanders spent decades trying to convince the Crown to confiscate the lots, however the descendants of the original owners were generally well connected to the British government and refused to give up the land.

The main board was changed ( it had four regions, and " The Beast ", a copy of the Dragon King alternate ending, instead of the Crown of Command ), the heroes and cards were different ( although many were just copies of the original ones with changed names ), and the terminology was changed ( event cards instead of adventure cards, sorcery cards instead of spell cards, etc .).

Under the Scots law principle of bona vacantia, the Crown has claim over any object of any material value where the original owner cannot be traced.

The bankruptcy of the original owner means that the freehold is no longer the bankrupt's legal property, and the disclaimer destroys the freehold estate, so that the land ceases to be owned by anyone and effectively escheats to become land held by the Crown in demesne.

* Crown Street ( original Liverpool terminus, replaced by Lime Street ).

The Crown Colonies is a new original trilogy that re-imagines the events of the American Revolutionary War.

The Crown Court is a criminal court of both original and appellate jurisdiction which in addition handles a limited amount of civil business both at first instance and on appeal.

The property crash in late 1973 brought an end to the Crown Agents, and their debts were sold on at a fraction of the original price.

The original terminus of the 1830 Liverpool and Manchester Railway ( L & MR ), was located at Crown Street, in Edge Hill to the east and outside of the city centre.

* The Crown Hotel-the original site of the hotel which gave its name to Crown Square is now a building society office.

* Crown Buildings, opposite the original Crown Hotel at the bottom of Bank Road, was built in 1889 and currently houses a cafe on its ground floor.