Example sentences of "hold from the " in BNC.

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1 The manor of Cosmeston was a sub-manor of the manor of Sully which , in turn , was held from the lord of Glamorgan .
2 There is a reference during the mid-16th century to the mill being held from the manor by Johannis Berry , who may have worked it as a fulling mill .
3 To discuss such issues outside the parlement of Paris , in territory which was in the immediate lordship of the English crown ( though held from the crown of France ) , represented a concession to English requests for a meeting which did not take the form of a lawsuit between unequals .
4 Armagnac 's brother , the archbishop of Auch , had acknowledged that his temporalities were held from the crown of France , and Capetian lawyers tried to argue that the lordships of Armagnac and Fézensac were fiefs of the archbishopric and therefore subject to the superior lordship of the French crown .
5 At 2pm a five-mile sponsored walk will be held from the church , finishing at about 4.30pm with refreshments .
6 By the time these cases were heard Mettingham had replaced the disgraced Thomas de Weyland [ q.v. ] as chief justice of the Common Bench , a post which he held from the beginning of 1290 until the time of his death .
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