wardship

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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

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 is no substitute for American citizenship, therefore we seek his enfranchisement.

From American Indian stories by Zitkala-Sa

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

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