- a variation of seigniory.
signory
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signories
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Pistoia, Arezzo, and other places of less account owned its signory; but an attempt to get possession of Lucca–with the incongruous aid of the Germans–failed.
From The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner
The signory was made up of nine members, of which the superior trades furnished four and the inferior trades five members.
From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Mathew Joseph Holt
In spite of checks here and there, the state of Milan became more and more powerful, and the signory of the Visconti by far the greatest of the tyrannies in Italy.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
He then assembled the newly-elected syndics of the trades and in conjunction with them created a new signory, composed of four members from the plebeians, two from the major and two from the minor trades.
From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Mathew Joseph Holt
The signory descended from one generation to the next.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
There come the ensigns of our subject towns and signories, Melema; they will all be suspended in San Giovanni until this day next year, when they will give place to new ones.”
From Romola by George Eliot
The next attempt was made by Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, who received part of the signories of Clannaboy and Ferney, provided he could expel the "rebels" who dwelt there.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
It would seem that an ancestor of Don Camillo was anciently a senator of Venice, when the death of a relation brought many Calabrian signories into his possession.
From The Bravo by James Fenimore Cooper
"Merchants Adventurers of England for the discovery of lands, territories, isles and signories, unknown."
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
The King of Spain, after the old Roman manner, has a whole page of titles, to express the several kingdoms and signories of which he is master.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 573, October 27, 1832 by Various
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