"Behold, lord," said he, "by virtue of this good axe am I free of the wild-wood; for, long since, when certain lords of Black Ivo burned our manor, and our mother and sister and father therein, my twin brother and I had fashioned two axes such as few men might wieldthis and anotherand thus armed, took to the green where other wronged men joined us till we counted many a score tall fellows, lusty fighters all.

Indeed to this day there is no proper road to it, which is all the more remarkable as it is the principal, and indeed the only, manor house for several miles round.

Then it was near Tangley, and his lady having known it from her childhood would feel at home there, and also it was utterly remote, there being no village near it or manor house other than Tangley Hall, which was now untenanted for the greater part of the year.

He that starts game on his own manor, may pursue it into another.

How nicely, now, you and I might get a living off this 'ere manor, if the landlords was served like the French ones was.

He sprang upright in the bed, and held out his withered paw with a kind of wild majesty, as he shouted, 'There ain't such a head of hares on any manor in the county.

Next morning he was found hanging dead on one side of the fence and the sheep on the other; in memory whereof the lord of the manor caused this monument to be erected as a warning to all who love mutton better than virtue.

M'Quarrie insisted that the Mercheta Mulierum, mentioned in our old charters, did really mean the privilege which a lord of the manor, or a baron, had, to have the first night of all his vassals' wives.

This is a position so generally received in England, that the extent of a manor and of a parish are regularly received for each other.

It is, in effect, part of the manor, and protected by the same laws with every other privilege.

THE DARKNESS AT WINDON MANOR, by Max Brand [pseud. of Frederick Faust] (In Argosy magazine)

The darkness at Windon Manor. R69449.

SEE Lasance, F. X. Daughters of the Manor.

Not long after this, the king went to hunt in the same forest, and the wicked wife, as lady of the manor, having sent before her a magnificent present, set forth to pay her court to her sovereign.

The time had passed for the sweet life at the manor-house of Trianon, for rustic amusements and the charity of youth and romance.

This was said by Miss Dorothy Grey, as a gentleman departed from her and made his way out of the front-door at the Fulham Manor-house.

"It is a much better house than Fulham Manor," said Amelia.

"If you want to know my precise idea," replied Mr. Lindsey, "it's just thisMichael Carstairs and Martin Smeaton are one and the same manor, I should say, were!

One of them, called The Old Manor House, deserves a visit for the sake of a fine ceiling in one of its rooms.

Banwell Court, near the church, contains some remains of a manor house, built by Bishop Beckington.

N. of the church is a building of two storeys, variously described as a chantry house (a chantry was founded here by Sir Peter d'Evercy, 1307) or a manor house, with an external octagon turret containing a staircase.

On the road to Blue Anchor there is an ancient manor-house, called Marshwood Farm, which has in its porch some curious plaster figures.

It was a very cheery Dot Waring who ran across the wet fields that afternoon to the Manor to acquaint Lady Carfax with the gratifying intelligence that the proceeds of the great entertainment at which she had so kindly assisted actually amounted to close upon thirty pounds.

He added, seeing Dot's face fall, that Mrs. Errol was spending a few days at the Manor and would no doubt be very pleased to see her.

She had despatched her urgent message to Lucas immediately upon her arrival at the Manor, and his prompt reply had in a measure reassured her.