seneschalty

Two towns or two boroughs, instead of one, had the same religious rights in each bailiwick or seneschalty of the kingdom.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830

The Assembly likewise refused to take into account the population of the circumscriptions (outlying districts) in fixing the number of its representatives; the seneschalty of Poitiers, which numbered seven hundred thousand inhabitants, was not to have more deputies than the bailiwick of Dourdan, which had but eight thousand.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

The burgesses were treated less favorably; the Reformed worship was maintained in the towns in which it had been practised up to the 7th of March in the current year; but, beyond that and noblemen's mansions, this worship might not be celebrated save in the faubourgs of one single town in every bailiwick or seneschalty.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830

England the hand of the Princess Catherine with a dowry of eight hundred and forty thousand golden crowns, besides fifteen towns in Aquitaine and the seneschalty of Limoges.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 1830

When they apply to the provincial estates of the _Oil_ tongue it is the custom to say, the burghers and inhabitants; when it is a question of the Estates of Languedoc, the commonalties of the seneschalty.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830