"This was, methinks, thy father's tower and demesne of Brand, Walkyn?" "Aye, lord, here was I bornyon ruined walls did hear my father's groansthe screams of my mother and sister amid the flame.

Lead works are found only upon the king's demesne in Derbyshire.

There are woods described which will feed a hundred, two hundred, three hundred hogs; and on the Bishop of London's demesne at Fulham a thousand hogs could fatten.

There were others besides Mr. Fanshawe who had walked out of Mr. Harte's demesne to Jimville and wore names that smacked of the soil,"Alkali Bill," "Pike" Wilson, "Three Finger," and "Mono Jim;" fierce, shy, profane, sun-dried derelicts of the windy hills, who each owned, or had owned, a mine and was wishful to own one again.