 | Suffolk Institute of Archaeology - Archaeology - 1774 - 564 pages
...parishes, which division happened probably not all at once, but by degrees. For it seems pretty clear and certain that the boundaries of parishes were originally...their tenants in one or two adjoining lordships." Hessett is one of these rare exceptions ; for the Manor of Lawneys, of which the demesne is in Bougham,... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...parishes were originally ascertained by thoseofamanoror manors : since it very seldom hap[1 13] pens that a manor extends itself over more parishes than...one, though there are often many manors in one parish (19). The lords, as Christianity spread itself, began to build churches upon their own demesnes or... | |
 | Joseph Guy - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1810 - 548 pages
...kept in the church-yard, and In Catholic countries on Sundays. PARISH.— 'Judge Black, it one says, that the boundaries of parishes were originally ascertained by those of a manor, or manors ; because it very seldom happens that a manor extends itself over more parishes than one, though there... | |
 | 1816 - 274 pages
...3 which division happened probably not all *t Atice, but by degrees. For it seems pretty cleat and certain, that the boundaries of parishes were originally...more parishes than one, though there are often many manoss in one parish. The Lords, as Christianity spread itself, begpn to build churches upon their... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...parishes ; which division happened probably not all at once, but by degrees. For it seems pretty clear and certain, that the boundaries of parishes were originally...ascertained by those of a manor or manors : since it very [113] seldom happens that a manor extends itself over more parishes than one, though there are often... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...parish, thouch there are often many manors in one parish. The lords, he adds, as Christianity sprrtid, began to build churches upon their own demesnes or...their tenants in one or two adjoining lordships ; and, that they might have divine service regularly performed therein, obliged all their tenants to appropriate... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 812 pages
...First's time (1288 — 1292) as it is at present. They seem to have been originally of the same extent as manors, since it very seldom happens that a manor extends itself over more parishes than one. The settling of die bounds of parishes depends on immemorial custom. They cannot now be altered but... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 862 pages
...parishes ; which division happened probably not all at once, but by degrees. For it seems pretty clear and i? ! 5 But at present the boundaries of the one afford no inference or evidence whatever of the boundaries... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 694 pages
...parishes; which division happened probably not all at once, but by degfees. For it seems pretty clear and certain, that the boundaries of parishes were originally...extends itself over more parishes than one, though [ *113 ] there are often many manors in one parish (34). *The lords, [ ^..' as Christianity spread... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1837 - 656 pages
...the division was not made at once, but by degrees. It is, according to Blackstone, pretty clear and certain, that the boundaries of parishes were originally ascertained by those of manors ; for it very seldom happens that a manor extends itself over more parishes than one, though... | |
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For it seems pretty clear and certain, that the boundaries of parishes were originally ascertained by those of a manor or manors : since it very seldom happens that a manor extends itself over more parishes than one, though there are often many manors... 
