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Example sentences for "barony"

Lexicographically close words:
baronial; baronie; baronies; barons; baronum; baroque; barouche; barouches; barouns; barque
  1. Matthew Pemberton (as it was signed) formally advised him of the death in action on the northwestern frontier of India, and of his succession to the barony and entailed estates.

  2. Greslets as part of the barony of Manchester.

  3. The barony is still held in the Arundell family, which has never ceased to be Roman Catholic.

  4. Mariota, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Lochore of that ilk, with whom he obtained half the barony of Auchterderran, in Fife.

  5. In this barony he was succeeded by his son John de Boswell, who espoused Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Melville, of Carnbee.

  6. He was made a baron of the United Kingdom--an Irish barony having been conferred on him in 1797.

  7. KEITH, the name of an old Scottish family which derived its name from the barony of Keith in East Lothian, said to have been granted by Malcolm II.

  8. The higher of them are found acting as agents and accountants for the holders of the fees into which the barony became split, as documents which concern our parish show.

  9. His property in the barony of Kendal included the "advowsons of Wynandermere and of Gressemere, each of which is worth 20 li yearly.

  10. She married William de Lindesey, and her son Walter took that portion of the barony which was later known as the Richmond Fee, and which included the advowson of our church.

  11. Barony of Kendal in chief from Richard I.

  12. But in 1309 the bishop sold the castle and barony of Alnwick to Henry de Percy; and this conveyance was confirmed by Edward II.

  13. The heir to the barony of Barnard is Morgan Vane, Esq.

  14. Scottish crown, was born in 1245, and succeeded to the barony of Alnwick on the death of his brother.

  15. He is senior co-heir to the barony of Clifford, and is unmarried, the heir-presumptive to the earldom being his brother, Admiral the Hon.

  16. Eleanor, co-heiress of Thomas Vernon, of Stokesley, through whom a claim to the barony of Powis was brought into the family.

  17. Nevertheless Scott's legal abilities were so well known, that it was certainly at one time intended to offer him a Barony of the Exchequer, and it was his own doing, apparently, that it was not offered.

  18. After the death of Morton, the barony of Dalkeith was included in the attainder; and the castle had been considered, during many years, as public property, and was inhabited by General Monk during the usurpation of Cromwell.

  19. In 1726, the barony of Strange devolved upon the Duke of Atholl; and the principality of the Isle of Man was also bequeathed to the same House by William ninth Earl of Derby.

  20. The barony in which they lived was the barony of Desmond.

  21. But there is another homestead in this same barony of Desmond, of which and of its owner--as being its owner--I will say a word.

  22. His barony of Howard of Walden has descended to his heirs general.

  23. Sir William Howard of Lingfield, younger brother of the great admiral, carried on the Effingham line, his great-grandson succeeding to the barony on the extinction of the earldom.

  24. In 1885 with Percy Apjohn in the evenings, reclined against the wall between Gibraltar villa and Bloomfield house in Crumlin, barony of Uppercross.

  25. Demesne situate in the townland of Rosenallis, barony of Tinnahinch.

  26. All customary property in the barony of Greystoke, except in the manor of Watermillock, is subject to heriots.

  27. A sporting custom peculiar to the two counties--for the nobleman most concerned has immense possessions in each--is the race for the Burgh Barony Cup.

  28. The regulations of the barony of Gilsland, in a manuscript volume belonging to the Earl of Lonsdale, are very explicit as to what was required of the tenants in the way of Border service.

  29. From the barony of Graystock; the Lord Dacre, his steward, deputy or deputies, overseers.

  30. A question arose some forty-five years ago as to a peculiar custom existing in the barony of Greystoke.

  31. While one branch of the Bertrand family continued in possession of the barony of Briquebec, another branch established itself in Northumberland, where it received from the Conqueror many manors.

  32. From the days of the Earl of Glocester to the breaking out of the French revolution, the barony of Creully continued to be held by different noble families.

  33. Seven of his descendants successively bore the name of Robert Bertrand, and successively possessed the barony of Briquebec.

  34. Marshall Lang, the present minister of the Barony Parish, "but there is none with a finer crypt.

  35. After the Reformation, the crypt became the Laigh Barony Church before there was set up, in the Cathedral green without, what Dr.

  36. His descendants continued to hold the barony until the beginning of the 14th century.

  37. Lexington's barony became extinct on his death, but his estates descended to the younger sons of his daughter Bridget (d.

  38. Worcester, was elevated to the peerage 1711, but his son died unmarried, and the barony then expired.

  39. In 1789 his mother succeeded to the barony of Hastings, and Rawdon added the surname of Hastings to his own.

  40. Before the time of the first earl of Harrington the Stanhope family had held the barony of Stanhope of Harrington, which was created in 1605 in favour of Sir John Stanhope (c.

  41. Charles Frederick Abney-Hastings, afterwards Baron Donington; the barony of Hastings, which fell into abeyance, was also revived in 1871 in her favour.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dukedom; kingship; knighthood; lordship; queenship