Anne further honoured Churchill, after his leadership in the victories against the French of 13 August 1704 near the village of Blenheim ( German Blindheim ) on the river Danube ( Battle of Blenheim ), by granting him the royal manor of Woodstock, and building him a house at her own expense to be called Blenheim.

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

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.

For the period before 1800, the history of landscape gardening ( later called landscape architecture ) is largely that of master planning and garden design for manor houses, palaces and royal properties, religious complexes, and centers of government.

In 733 Æthelbald undertook an expedition against Wessex and captured the royal manor of Somerton.

Edward III gave the manor of Kennington to his oldest son Edward, the Black Prince in 1337, and the prince then built a large royal palace between what is now Black Prince Road and Sancroft Street, near to Kennington Cross.

The manor house of Kennington remained a royal palace until the time of Henry VIII of England ; Kennington was the occasional residence of Henry IV and Henry VI, and Henry VII was here before his coronation.

In the 1550s, Henry's daughter, Mary I, granted the manor to Cardinal Reginald Pole who held it until his death in 1558 when it once again become royal property.

The Queen lavished upon her favourite the royal manor of Woodstock and the promise of a fine palace commemorative of his great victory at Blenheim ; but since her accession her relationship with Sarah had become progressively distant.

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.

Vanbrugh had wanted an obelisk to mark the site of the former royal manor, and the trysts of Henry II which had taken place there, causing the 1st Duchess to remark, " If there were obelisks to bee made of all what our Kings have done of that sort, the countrey would bee stuffed with very odd things " ( sic ).

The manor became royal again under Harold II of England, and by the Norman Conquest, 28 townships in what is now South Yorkshire belonged to the Lord of Conisbrough.

Belvoir was a royal manor until it was granted to Robert, 1st baron de Ros in 1257.

At the Norman Conquest the royal manor of Cirencester was granted to the Earl of Hereford, William Fitz-Osbern, but by 1075 it had reverted to the Crown.

The manor was granted to the Abbey in 1189, although a royal charter dated 1133 speaks of burgesses in the town.

At the Norman Conquest, the king took the manor of Aylesbury for himself, and it is listed as a royal manor in the Domesday Book, 1086.

The bishops of Winchester owned the manor, and obtained the first charter for their " men of Taunton " from King Edward in 904, freeing them from all royal and county tribute.

However, after the Norman conquest, areas east of the Wye, within the former Saxon royal manor of Tidenham and including Beachley, Tutshill, Sedbury and Tidenham Chase, were included within the lordship of Striguil or Chepstow.

Caleb Heathcote purchased the land that would become Scarsdale at the end of the 17th century and, on March 21, 1701, had them elevated to a royal manor.

The town began to develop in the early medieval period as a number of farming hamlets surrounded by manor houses and royal forests, and has held a market for more than 700 years.

It was first chartered by King John in 1212, though it had been a market town and royal manor for some years.

In Gloucestershire, a survey of the then royal manor of Cheltenham in 1617 asked tenants " whether is there not duly continued and paid certain moneys called peter pence ; if not when did they discontinue and what was the sum of them and to whom was it paid?

In 1299 Edward I " Hammer of the Scots ", took his whole court to the manor-house at Sheen, a little east of the bridge and on the riverside, and it thus became a royal residence.

There was however another building, possibly the new Church-building itself, which still had not been completed 11 years later, by 1442, when Henry VI issued further letters patent granting the Abbess and Convent special privileges for the transport of building materials from the King's warren in the royal manor of Sheen across the river to Isleworth:

The small town of Sheen on the Surrey bank of the Thames, west of the City of London or by river, had been the site of a royal palace since 1299.

It was erected c. 1501 within the royal manor of Sheen, by Henry VII of England, formerly known by his title Earl of Richmond, after which it was named.

In 1500, immediately preceding the construction of the new " Richmond " Palace the following year, the town of Sheen which had grown up around the royal manor changed its name to " Richmond ", by command of Henry VII.

In 1299 Edward I took his whole court to the manor-house at Sheen, close by the river side, which thus became a royal palace.

In 1414 Henry V also founded a Carthusian monastery there known as Sheen Priory, adjacent on the N. to the royal residence.

The crown, however, did not decide to lay aside this weapon, and in a declaration to the States-General in the royal session of 23 June 1789 ( art.

The royal family of the country are prominent members, and the late king was a lay preacher.

This not only generated revenues through royal appropriation of Jewish loans and property, but it also gave Edward the political capital to negotiate a substantial lay subsidy in the 1290 Parliament.

Hans Daalder, Professor of political science at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden wrote: " Did such simultaneous developments not result in a possible failure to lay down the limits of the royal prerogratives with some precision-which implied that the view of the King as the Keeper of the Nation, with rights and duties of its own, retained legitimacy?

* Cunninghame in the north which included the royal burgh of Irvine was that part of the county which lay north of the Irvine water, and was in an area that is generally level and fertile.

However, their cooperation began to loosen from 1053 when the king fathered a son, Salamon, because from that time King Andrew wanted to ensure his son's inheritance against his brother, who pursuant to the old Hungarian custom, as the oldest member of the royal family, could lay claim to the throne in case of the king's death.

In 1302, expanding French royal power led to a general assembly consisting of the chief lords, both lay and ecclesiastical, and the representatives of the principal privileged towns, which were like distinct lordships.

" Although an escape route across the sea lay open for the emperor, Theodora insisted that she would stay in the city, quoting an ancient saying, " Royalty is a fine burial shroud ," or perhaps, royal color " Purple makes a fine winding sheet.

However, they cooperation began to loosen from 1053 when the king fathered a son, Solomon, because from that time he wanted to ensure his son's inheritance against his brother, who pursuant to the old Hungarian customs, as the oldest member of the royal family, could lay claim to the throne in case of the king's death.

If a Speaker is chosen in the middle of a Parliament due to a vacancy in the office, he or she must receive the royal approbation as described above, but does not again lay claim to the Commons ' rights and privileges.

They chose the run down site of Sydney's first official European cemetery: on George Street, in the commercial heart of the city and organised for Sydney ’ s first royal visitor, HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, to lay a foundation stone on 4 April 1868, even before colonial authorities on Macquarie Street had approved the plan.

Until the end of the German Empire, social and political convention often placed members of noble or royal households in command of its armies or corps but the actual responsibility for the planning and conduct of operations lay with the formation's staff officers.

The centre of Bernicia lay in the region around the later Anglo-Scottish border, with Lindisfarne, Hexham, Bamburgh, and Yeavering being important religious and royal centres.

One such problem involved Henry McCulloh, who had received a large royal grant of land, some of which lay within Granville's district.

During this time Roscrea lay on the northern edge of the County Palatinate of Tipperary ( an territorial area administered from Kilkenny in which legal jurisdiction was held by Butler Earls of Ormond, rather than the King, but with royal permission ).

The collection is divided into several different types of songs, including the following: kyo, bwe, thachin gan, the oldest repertoires ; pat pyo, royal court music ; lwan chin, songs of longing ; lay dway than gat ; myin gin, music that makes horses dance ; nat chin, songs used to worship the nat, Burmese spirits ; yodaya, music introduced from Ayutthaya, Talaing than, music adapted from the Mon people and bole, songs of sorrow.

During the first part of the battle, Ralph Tesson realised on which side allegiance truly lay, and he and his men then changed sides and joined the royal army, attacking the rebels from the rear.

In rear of the centre, in open ground just north of Newbury, lay the bulk of the royal cavalry.

Also, the Residency lay in the middle of several palaces, mosques and administrative buildings, as Lucknow had been the royal capital of Oudh for many years.

At a later date the word " oblate " was used to describe such lay men or women as were pensioned off by royal and other patrons upon monasteries or benefices, where they lived as in an almshouse or homes.

The matter went to the royal justices, who decided in 1281 that since the lands concerned lay in Wales, Welsh law should be used.

The Northern Shaolin style associated with Gu Ruzhang was first taught to a lay disciple, the celebrated 18th century master Gan Fengchi of Jiangsu Province, by a Shaolin monk named Zhao Yuan, born Zhu Fu, a member of the Ming royal family who joined the sangha after the Ming was overthrown by the Qing in 1644.

Free of lay and episcopal interference, responsible only to the papacy, which was in a state of weakness and disorder with rival popes supported by competing nobles, Cluniac spirit was felt revitalizing the Norman church, reorganizing the royal French monastery at Fleury and inspiring St Dunstan in England.