All the public offices in Florence were held by his dependents, and so entirely was the state machinery controlled by him that we find such men as Louis XI and the emperor Maximilian, Alfonso of Naples, and Pope Innocent VIII recognizing his authority and appealing to him personally, in place of to the seigniory, to effect the ends they desired.

On November 4th, the seigniory called a special meeting of the Council of Seventy, in order to decide what course to adopt.

According to the old Florentine law and custom, no one was allowed to speak unless invited to do so by the seigniory, and was then only expected to support the measures which they had proposed.

On this day there was great agitation in the council; the safety of the country was at stake; the seigniory asked everyone for advice, and all wished to speak.

The seigniory also endeavored to quell the disturbances by means of edicts of the severest kind.

Instantly the bell of the seigniory clanged the alarm; the streets swarmed with a furious mob; armed men sprang, as by magic, from the earth, and rushed toward the Piazza; palace doors were barred; towers bristled with defenders; stockades began to be built across the streets, and on that day the French took their first lesson in the art of barricades.

On November 17th the seigniory assembled on a platform erected by the San Frediano gate; and numbers of young Florentine nobles went forth to meet the King, who made his state entry at the twenty-first hour of the day.

The members of the seigniory then rose and advanced toward him to pay their respects, while Messer Luca Corsini, being deputed to that office, stood forth to read a written address.

Entering the Duomo, he was met by the seigniory, who, to avoid the pressure of the armed host, had been obliged to come around by the back streets.

The Seigniory of Florence consented that two monks only should devote themselves for their respective orders, and directed the pile to be prepared.

Even in the seigniory the majority was against them, and yielded to the pressing demands of the Pope.

The chieftains of these military clubs, usually from the lowest ranks, with no capacity but for bloodshed, and no revenue but rapine, often ended their career by obtaining the seigniory of some petty republic, a small town, or a handful of hamlets, whose liberty they crushed with their own iron, and with the gold obtained, in exchange for their blood, from the city bankers.

All laws proposed by the magistrates, or seigniory, had to be ratified by this higher and selecter council.

Some of the rights of seigniory, as it was called, were such as can hardly be mentioned in this more decorous age; some were so ridiculous that it is inconceivable how their very absurdity had not led to their abolition.

A good deal of land in Lower Canada is held in seigniory, under a species of feudal tenure, with respect to the conditions of which a controversy has arisen which threatens, unless some equitable mode of adjusting it be speedily devised, to be productive of very serious consequences.

Of the Seigniory there be about three hundreth, and about fourtie of the priuie Counsell of Venice, who vsually are arayed in gownes of crimsen Satten, or crimsen Damaske, when they sit in Counsell.

Señor, m., Lord, God. señor, m., lord, gentleman, nobleman, man, knight, sir; pues, sí , yes sir-ee, yes indeed sir. señora, f., lady, madam, mistress; Nuestra Señora, Our Lady (appellation of the Virgin Mary). señorial, seigniorial; of (or pertaining to) the lord of a manor. señorío, m., seigniory, domains, dominion.

The traders of New France grumbled at his profits and monopoly, and the English of New England claimed his seigniory.

He took the keys, and groped into the seigniory house for the linen chest, and provided lint and bandages, and brought cordials from the cellar; making his patient as comfortable as a wounded man who was a veteran in years could be made in the first fever and thirst of suffering.

It had been built not many years before by the Seminaire priests of Quebec for the protection and nourishment of their seigniory, that huge grant of rich land stretching from Beaupré to Cap Tourmente, bequeathed to the church by the first bishop of Canada.

The seigniory house faced the parade ground, and they could see against its large low mass, lounging on the gallery, one each side of a window, the white uniforms of two French soldiers.

And every man in the seigniory dangling at her apron string!" "You are mistaken.

There is the young seignior; and there is the new English commandant, who must be now within the seigniory, for they expect him at the post to-morrow morning.

The Frenchwomen collected at the seigniory house.

The pine timber on the seigniory of Temiscouata has been in a great degree cut off or burnt by fires in the woods.