- a variation of seigniory.
signory
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signories
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Every council being adorned with a state for the signory, shall be attended by two secretaries, two doorkeepers, and two messengers-in-ordinary, and have power to command more upon emergencies, as occasion requires.
From The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington
Cardinal Wolsey is very anxious for the signory to send him a hundred Damascene carpets for which he has asked several times, and expected to receive them by the last galleys.
From Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition by Herbert Tree
These were the famous Ordinamenti della Giustizia of 1293, by which all who were not of the arti were definitely excluded from the signory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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
Chigi too had instituted such search as was possible without putting the matter in the hands of the authorities, which would have brought about awkward complications with the signory of Florence.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
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
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
"Merchants Adventurers of England for the discovery of lands, territories, isles and signories, unknown."
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
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
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
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