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1798 Bell's Weekly Messenger 13 May 150/1 Sir William Beechey's honorial Knighthood holds up an example for emulation.

1810 J. Britton & E. W. Brayley Topogr. & Hist. Descr. Norfolk 53 (heading) Civil, political, and honorial history.

1831 A. Humphrys-Alexander Addr. Peers of Scotl. p. xxviii I shall not assume to inquire, on what ground the Earl of Newburgh shall have been received at Court?—nor why a nautical Baronet shall have partaken of a similar honour, when the verdict of a Jury shall have decided against his honorial descent.

1891 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 23 100 The occurrence of the Licinian stone is itself an argument for the honorial character of the Constantine [stone].

1836 T. Wright Hist. & Topogr. County of Essex I. ii. v. 545 This lordship..was given by the Conqueror to Eustace, earl of Boulogne, and consequently was afterwards holden of that noble house, whose chief honorial court for Essex was at Witham.

1890 Eng. Hist. Rev. 5 586 The latter view would reduce the honorial jurisdiction to a mere development of the manorial principle.

1943 F. M. Stenton Anglo-Saxon Eng. xvii. 628 On every great honour..there appear tenants holding considerable estates... The honorial barons, as tenants of this class may conveniently be called, have received less attention..than is their due.

1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. viii. 329 Honorial courts dealt primarily with military feudal questions.

2003 Albion 35 264 A system of honorial tenants with quotas of knight-service who owed suit at court.