lord

Examples of lord in the following topics:

• The Founding of Carolina

  • The Province of Carolina was created when Charles II rewarded the Lords Proprietor lands that include the modern day Carolinas and Georgia.
  • They named their colony Carolina, and they themselves were called the Lords Proprietors.
  • The Province of Carolina was controlled from 1663 to 1729 by these lords and their heirs.
  • The most active in the colonies was Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 1st Earl of Shaftsbury.
  • The Earl of Clarendon was one of eight Lords Proprietor given title to the Province of Carolina.

• Feudalism

  • A lord was in broad terms a noble who held land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and a fief was what the land was known as.
  • In exchange for the use of the fief and the protection of the lord, the vassal would provide some sort of service to the lord.
  • Before a lord could grant land (a fief) to someone, he had to make that person a vassal.
  • During homage, the lord and vassal entered into a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, while the lord agreed to protect the vassal from external forces.
  • The vassal's principal obligation to the lord was "aid," or military service.

• The Manor System

  • Manorialism was characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in the lord of a manor.
  • The lord was supported economically from his own direct landholding in a manor (sometimes called a fief), and from the obligatory contributions of the peasant population who fell under the jurisdiction of the lord and his court.
  • As part of the contract with the landlord, the lord of the manor, they were expected to spend some of their time working on the lord's fields.
  • Villeins were tied to the land and could not move away without their lord's consent and the acceptance of the lord to whose manor they proposed to migrate to.
  • Illustrate the hierarchy of the manor system by describing the roles of lords, villeins, and serfs

• The First Emancipation

  • Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
  • In November 1775 Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, issued a controversial proclamation, later known as Lord Dunmore's Proclamation.
  • The governor formed them into the Ethiopian Regiment, also known as Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment.
  • Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment was probably the first black regiment in the service of the Crown during the revolution.

• The English Protectorate

  • The Protectorate was the period during the Commonwealth when England (which at that time included Wales), Ireland and Scotland were governed by a Lord Protector.
  • Cromwell had two key objectives as Lord Protector.
  • Most notably, however, the office of Lord Protector was still not to become hereditary, though Cromwell was now able to nominate his own successor.
  • Cromwell died of natural causes in 1658 and his son Richard succeeded as Lord Protector.
  • Cromwell's signature before becoming Lord Protector in 1653, and afterwards.

• The Carolinas

  • The 1663 charter granted the Lords Proprietor title to all of the land from the southern border of the Virginia Colony to the coast of present-day Georgia.
  • Another region, near present-day Charleston, South Carolina, was settled under the Lords Proprietors in 1670.
  • The Lords Proprietors, operating under their royal charter, were able to exercise their authority with nearly the autonomy of the king himself.
  • This period culminated in Cary's Rebellion when the Lords Proprietors finally commissioned a new governor.
  • This circumstance, coupled with hostilities with American Indian tribes and the inability of the Lords Proprietors to act decisively, led to separate governments for North and South Carolina.

• Preindustrial Cities

  • In the Holy Roman Empire, some cities had no other lord than the emperor.
  • City residence brought freedom from customary rural obligations to lord and community (hence the German saying, "Stadtluft macht frei," which means "City air makes you free").
  • Often, cities were governed by their own laws, separate from the rule of lords of the surrounding area.

• Maryland

  • The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore and as a haven for English Roman Catholics in the New World.
  • Maryland's foundational charter created a state ruled by Lord Baltimore, who directly owned all of the land granted in the charter.
  • The charter created an aristocracy of lords of the manor who bought land from Baltimore and held greater legal and social privileges than the common settlers.

• The Aftermath of Saratoga

  • The British government of Lord Frederick North came under sharp criticism when the news of Burgoyne's surrender reached London.
  • This defeat prompted Lord North to issue a proposal for peace terms in Parliament.
  • Following the Patriot victory at Saratoga, Lord North's government was heavily criticized for their management of the war effort.

• Preindustrial Societies: The Birth of Inequality

  • Instead of producing crops for a market, workers exchanged the crops they grew for access to land, which was owned by a feudal lord.
  • Feudal lords were landowners; in exchange for access to land for living and farming, serfs offered lords their service or labor.