since you will have it, Baron Herbert; He who will gain his Seignory when Idonea Hath become Clifford's harlotis he living?

These grants from the crown, in the portions of the colony of New York that lie west of the river counties, were generally, if not invariably, simple concessions of the fee, subject to quit-rents to the king, and reservations of mines of the precious metals, without any of the privileges of feudal seignory, as existed in the older manors on the Hudson, on the islands, and on the Sound.

Suffice it to say, that Papineau has retired to solitude and reflection at his seignory, 'La Petite Nation'and that the pastoral letter, of which I enclose a copy, has been read au prône in every Roman Catholic church in the diocese.

There was not a state or seignory, which did not want all the hands they could muster, either to defend their own right, or to dispute that of their neighbours.

Having now accomplished the composition of this book and others, I most humbly offer the same to your highness; and, after many and most fortunate years of governing, I pray God to take you from the transitory seignory of this earth, and to receive you into the perpetual joys of Heaven.

I assented, and yielded you the province, upon the understanding, sworn to according to the faith of loyal kings, that within forty days you assign to me its seignory as your vassal.

p. 277.).The seignory of Gower is the peninsula which runs out between the bays of Swansea and Carmarthen; and which terminates at Swansea on the S.E. side, and at Longhor on the N.W., and comprises the district which, in common with a part of Scotland, anciently bore the name of Rheged.

Mr. Dillwyn's Contributions towards a History of Swansea contains the following references to the Gower property of Cromwell:"We are informed by the Minute-book of the Common Hall" (at Swansea), "that on May 19, 1648, there came to this towne the truly Honourable Oliver Cromwell, Esq.... Lord of this towne, the Seignory of Gower, and Manor of Killay, with the members thereof," &c.