What is "wardenship"

Usage examples of "wardenship".

Crown wishes to leave the wardenship vacant just now so Charles can add yet a few more tithings to his coffers.

He had dined at Court on several occasions, mostly to listen for gossip about the vacant wardenship he so coveted.

Sir Robert, you must assuredly know James has no noble at this juncture to whom he may turn to take on the burden of the Wardenship of the Stannaries.

Lucrative as the Wardenship of the Stannaries is, Charles has not the temperament to oversee such tedious matters.

They had been speaking of the same wardenship that her cousin and Robert had briefly discussed on their first night at Court.

Her cousin had never discussed the Wardenship of the Stannaries with her.

The royal business George had with her husband could have been nothing short of the wardenship Robert so desired, and she would make him aware of her part in it soon enough.

The best way out of the difficulty is to report him sick because, of course, the City Wardenship is out of the question for him.

But to remove that suzerainty, to deprive the Khalif of the wardenship of the Holy Places is to render Khilafat a mockery which no Mahomedan can possibly look upon with equanimity, I am not alone in my interpretation of the pledge.

Why else were we given wardenship of the Waste in the far times but that we watch for such?

Therefore I, Rakhal of Scathfell, am prepared to assume wardenship of the Domain in your name.

That started the day Lord Festian was confirmed in his wardenship, as you might say.

But I was studying for a wardenship, and was a cadet, and I believed what the Sophotechs preached, so I told my uncle that he was wrong.

July 31st, the Cowntess of Warwik did this evening thank her Majestie in my name, and for me, for her gift of the Wardenship of Manchester.

Hubert Purnell would at this moment be reposing in the Philadelphia clink under the stern wardenship of Director Thurling.