wardships

Edward Is various grants to Guy Ferre of royal timber, wardships, manors, and promises of justice may be seen as a measure of both Sir Guys loyalty and the kings gratitude.

The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320 Jay Lathen Boehm 1992

We must also remember the enormous power of the Scottish Crown through its right of granting wardships, especially in the case of a female heir.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

So also the grant of wardships and forfeited goods can be paralleled in many cases.

Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926

Formerly they had wardships, courts of justice, now they have the district council—not in the form of bribes, but in the form of unearned salary, ’ he said, as hotly as though some one of those present had opposed his opinion.

Chapter V. Part I 1917

So also the grant of wardships and forfeited goods can be paralleled in many cases.

Chaucer's Official Life Hulbert, James Root, 1884- 1912

As for fishing for testaments and executorships (as Tacitus saith of Seneca, testamenta et orbos tamquam indagine capi [he took testaments and wardships as with a net]), it is yet worse; by how much men submit themselves to meaner persons than in service.

XXXIV. Of Riches 1909

Government officials over the rank of a provost shall not acquire property in their own jurisdiction; nor make a profit out of the wardships of minors; nor form any ties nor party outside the King's interests.

The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville 1906

To revive wardships, etc., was impossible, to recover arrears hopeless.

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

Manors, benefices, or wardships; for the cost of keeping up such state as was required was great indeed, and could not have been done without some adequate compensation.

In the Days of Chivalry Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

At last Langton persuaded both parties to come to an agreement on the basis of king's friends and barons alike surrendering their castles and wardships.

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892