Potomac landings . dom and restraint, of life anddeath. It is true that the elective judicial systemsuperceded the Courts Baron and Leet early in riverhistory, but in the original instance, the medievalprivileges did pass to the manors with the proprietorsgrant and are known to have been exercised. A manor, therefore, represented not only a vast hold-ing in units of thousands of acres, but it represented alsodistinguished judicial authority, and the names of themanors of Maryland reflect a sense of this in theirunfailing dignity. The fashion of giving a name toevery country habitation was brou
Potomac landings . dom and restraint, of life anddeath. It is true that the elective judicial systemsuperceded the Courts Baron and Leet early in riverhistory, but in the original instance, the medievalprivileges did pass to the manors with the proprietorsgrant and are known to have been exercised. A manor, therefore, represented not only a vast hold-ing in units of thousands of acres, but it represented alsodistinguished judicial authority, and the names of themanors of Maryland reflect a sense of this in theirunfailing dignity. The fashion of giving a name toevery country habitation was brought into all thesouthern colonies where the English came. Hence inMaryland not only were manors named but, as theywere divided, the tenants and smaller land ownersnamed their houses after their own fashion. There is a marked difference between the character ofthe names of the manors and of the small the former are unfailingly dignified the latter areoften amusing. Scattered along the river shore were.
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