Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The Grange, for example, a manor built in Toronto, was built in 1817.

Palin said, " This was Graham's manor and Graham was a lovely guy.

In 1530, Catherine was banished from court and spent the remainder of her life ( until her death in 1536 ) alone in an isolated manor home, barred from any contact with Mary ( although her ladies-in-waiting helped the two maintain a secret correspondence ).

Despite its name, the building is not actually a castle at all, but rather was a manor house built in 1830 by a local businessman named Arend.

This honour continued until Henry VIII resumed the manor, although it was later regranted it was without the royal service.

Manorialism was characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in a Lord of the Manor, supported economically from his own direct landholding in a manor ( sometimes called a fief ), and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under the jurisdiction of himself and his manorial court.

The hall was of central importance to every manor, being the place where the lord, surrounded by dependents, expressed his position of dominance

For example, when a grand new house was required by the new owner of Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, in the 1830s, the site of the existing manor house at the edge of its village was abandoned for a new one, isolated in its park, with the village out of view.

This description of a manor house at Chingford, Essex in England was recorded in a document for the Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral when it was granted to Robert Le Moyne in 1265:

As with peasant plots, the demesne was not a single territorial unit, but consisted rather of a central house with neighbouring land and estate buildings, plus strips dispersed through the manor alongside free and villein ones: in addition, the lord might lease free tenements belonging to neighbouring manors, as well as holding other manors some distance away to provide a greater range of produce.

English resistance was reduced to a few isolated castles, walled towns and fortified manor houses.

At the time, the manor was in a very dilapidated condition.

A naturally defensible position was identified perched high above the River Seine, an important transport route, in the manor of Andeli.

Walter de Coutances, Archbishop of Rouen, was reluctant to sell the manor as it was one of the diocese's most profitable, and other lands belonging to the diocese had recently been damaged by war.

When Philip besieged Aumale in Normandy, Richard grew tired of waiting and seized the manor, although the act was opposed by the Church.

But this legend appears for the first time in only a much later account, " Tales of a Grandfather " by Sir Walter Scott, and may have originally been told about his companion-in-arms Sir James Douglas ( the " Black Douglas "), who had spent time hiding out in caves within his manor of Lintalee, which was then occupied by the English.

In the extreme south of the Lizard was the royal manor of Winnianton which was held by King William I at the time of Domesday Book ( 1086 ) and was also the head manor of the hundred of Kerrier.

After the Norman invasion the manor of Chatham, originally Saxon, was given by William the Conqueror to Earl Godwinson.

The lands of the manor were given to the Cecil family in 1588 and a new manor house was constructed and gardens laid out in the formal Elizabethan style.

Its history dates back to 1020 when the manor was given by King Canute to the newly founded Abbey of St. Benet at Hulme.

The manor of Woolhope in Herefordshire, along with four others, was given to the cathedral at Hereford before the Norman Conquest by the benefactresses Wulviva and Godivausually held to be this Godiva and her sister.

Historically the name Glossop refers to the small hamlet that gave its name to an ancient parish recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and then the manor given by William I of England to William Peverel.

In 1157, the abbey was given the manor of Glossop in Derbyshire by King Henry II.

After the earliest British colonialists arrived, the area was developed under the manor system when Frederick Philipse, a Dutch merchant and British Loyalist, was " given " the land by the British government.

Marlborough was given the former royal manor of Hensington ( situated on the site of Woodstock ) to site the new palace and Parliament voted a substantial sum of money towards its creation.

The estate given by the nation to Marlborough for the new palace was the manor of Woodstock, sometimes called the Palace of Woodstock, which had been a royal demesne, in reality little more than a deer park.

The manor is said to have been given to Bishop Erkenwald about the year 691 for himself and his successors in the see of London, and Holinshed relates that the Bishop of London was lodging in his manor place in 1141 when Geoffrey de Mandeville, riding out from the Tower of London, took him prisoner.

The manor of Witham was given to the Knights Templar in 1148.

In Bestune, at the Conquest, Alfag, Alwine, and UIchel, the Saxons had three manors consisting of three carucates of land assessed, which was taken from them, and given to William Peverel, the lord of Nottingham Castle, who had in his demesne, or chief manor estate, 2 plough teams, there being 17 bond tenants, called villeins, who were unable to leave the estate without the lord's consent, and yet each cultivating, say, of arable land, and 1 ordinary tenant, called a sochman, who together had 9 plough teams.

When the nunnery was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539, the manor was given to Thomas, Lord Cromwell a few days before he was made Earl of Essex.

Unlike the French feudalism from which it was derived, the lord of the manor was not granted the " haut " or " bas " jurisdiction to impose fines and penalties as in Europe ; those powers were given to the Intendant of New France, a commissioner sent by the King.

A commoner can also refer to someone who, by right of landholding or residence, holds a common right in a given manor.

It is the ruins of a former castle or moated manor house which was given a licence to crenellate in 1335.

The manor of the village was given as a fief to various holders by the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

The first historical record of the village dates from 942, when the manor of " Bromleage " was given to Wulfsige the Black.

per manor or parish, was being given to local church authorities for forwarding.

The church in Bolton has an early foundation although the date is not known, it was given by the lord of the manor to the Gilbertine canons of Mattersey Priory, in Nottinghamshire, which was founded by Roger de Marsey.

The manor of Barwell which is described in Domesday Book as " ancient demesne ", was later given to Hugh de Hastings, a steward and favourite of Henry I, and held in fee along with many other local manors from the priory of Coventry for the service of a single knight ’ s fee.

In 1093, the manor of Charlton was given to Bermondsey Abbey by Bishop Robert Bloet of Lincoln.

In his Itinerary, John Leland mentions that Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and his wife Anne Neville, are believed to have built a new manor of timber-frame construction, with a lease given by King Henry VI in 1460 to Edward Mountfort suggesting that the manor was then occupied by the Mountfort family.