hold in demesne

It provides that land held in demesne by the Crown may be registered.

The manor was not held in demesne like other manors.

The Count of Eu holds in demesne a manor which is called Hou.

The manor was subsequently held in demesne by a Joice de Tockholes and a Geoffrey de Sutton.

As with much of the land seized by William the Conqueror after his arrival in England in 1066, Aldermaston was held in demesne.

Usually a portion of the week was devoted to ploughing his lord's fields held in demesne, harvesting crops, digging ditches, repairing fences, and often working in the manor house.

From early times, the Manor of Slaidburn formed part of the ancient Lordship of Bowland, being held in demesne from the second half of the 14th century.

For every hundred, the total number of hides is given, and of these, the number of hides that owed geld and those that did not because they were held in demesne by the king or his barons.

We have seen that in thirteenth-century England the larger monasteries, assured of steady markets, resumed the direct management of their lands, expanded the quantity held in demesne, and even increased the labour owed them by their peasants.

According to the Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d.1640), Umberleigh was a royal manor held in demesne by King Athelstan (circa 893/895-939), King of the West Saxons from 924 to 927, and King of the English from 927 to 939.

Those held in demesne were Colne, Great and Little Marsden, Briercliffe, Burnley, Ightenhill, Habergham, Padiham, Huncoat, Hapton, Accrington, Haslingden, Downham, Worston, Chatburn and Little Pendleton.