The bishops possessed numerous manors in the diocese, and these were really not only endowments, but stations whence the episcopal duty of visitation could be performed.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
Rougemont has over a thousand acres and several manors upon it, where people whom his Highness your father advanced over others, live.
"The Lost Door"
Dorothy Quick
The result of these influences was to develop in the South a system of large ill-worked manors or estates.
"Government and Administration of the United States"
Westel W. Willoughby and William F. Willoughby