Crossword-Solution: SEIGNORAL 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Generation after generation has tilled these patches, until they are exhausted; and thus the few proprietors who have been able to emancipate themselves from the Seignoral thraldom sell as fast as they can obtain purchasers; and the Seignories lapse, by failure of descent or by cutting off the entail, as it may be termed, under the dominion of foreigners, to the people.

Flot, derived from the French _flottant_, floating; and jet, from the verb _jeter_, to _throw up_; both used in seignoral rights, granted by kings to favourites, empowering them to take possession of the property of any man who might happen to be unfortunate, which was in those times tantamount to being guilty.

The manor of Brighthelmston-Michelham was held of the king by three Aloarii, or joint tenants of the same manor, who owed no suit or service to any superior, but “might go where they pleased,” that is, in the feudal language of Domesday, were attached to no lord in a _seignoral_, but to the king alone in a civil capacity.

Cil moigne n’est pas bon claustral Q’est fait gardein ou seneschal D’ascun office q’est forein; Car lors luy falt selle et chival Pour courre les paiis aval, Si fait despense au large mein; Il p_re_nt vers soy le meulx de grein, Et laist as autres com_m_e vilein 20960 La paille, et ensi seignoral Devient le moigne nyce et vein: De vuide g_ra_nge et ventre plein N’ert pas l’acompte bien egal.