wardship

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Wardship was the most regular and legal of all these impositions by prerogative; yet was it a great badge of slavery and oppressive to all the considerable families.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David

As early as 1580, Richard Fenner's Wardship Roll has "Item a Caul and Shadoe 4 shillings."

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

Wardship, nature of the lord's claim to, 116; results of the system, 330.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

If the successor was an infant, the Crown under the name of Wardship, took the rents of the estates.

From Landholding in England by Fisher, Joseph, the younger, of Youghal

James in turn showed his resentment by passing over the attempts made to commute for a fixed sum the oppressive rights of Purveyance and Wardship.

From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by Green, John Richard