For Carolina, Shaftesbury and Locke devised a constitution which provided a territorial nobility, called landgraves and caciques, but it soon became a mere historical curiosity. ❋ Bourinot, John G (1903)
Carolina was to have an elaborately stratified society, with a nobility of landgraves and “caciques,” hereditary, indivisible domains, baronies, manors, and seignories. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)
There shall be a parliament, consisting of the proprietors or their deputies, the landgraves and cassiques, and one freeholder out of every precinct, to be chosen by the freeholders of the said precinct respectively. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
The landgraves; the eldest in age first, and so in order. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
Paragraph LXXVI, and except also in nominating and chusing landgraves and cassiques, as in Paragraph X. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
The landgraves of the grand council; he that hath been longest of the grand council first, and so in order. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
The first landgraves and cassiques of the twelve first counties to be planted, shall be nominated thus; that is to say, of the twelve landgraves the Lords Proprietors shall each of them separately for himself nominate and chuse one; and the remaining four landgraves of the first twelve, shall be nominated and chosen by the Palatine's court. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
That the due number of landgraves and cassiques may be always kept up; if, upon the devolution of any land graveship or cassiqueship, the ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
John Earl of Bath having succeeded Lord Craven as Palatine, several persons of character and influence in Carolina were by him created landgraves; among whom were Edmund Ballenger, John Bayley, and Robert ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
There shall be just as many landgraves as there are counties, and twice as many cassiques, and no more. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
The upper house was to consist of the seven deputies, seven of the oldest landgraves and cassiques, and seven chosen by the assembly. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
Lands for the cassiques and landgraves were ordered to be marked out in square plats, and freedom was granted them to chuse their situation. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
Locke, Sir John Yeamans, and James Carteret, were created landgraves, to make part of the nobility required by the fundamental constitutions. ❋ Alexander Hewatt (N/A)
The Governor and the upper house, which consisted of the seven councilors and representatives of the Lords Proprietors, two landgraves, several colonels, and the secretary, made, indeed, their excuses and paid me a compliment in regard to this affair, and with this I had to be satisfied. ❋ Unknown (1920)
In the first place, the appointment of landgraves had always been irregular. ❋ Unknown (1920)
The obligations of the leet men, whether subject to lords of manors, caciques, or landgraves, were to be the same in all parts of the province. ❋ Unknown (1920)
His own language in characterizing the actions of his colonists in following Brice, when he speaks of them as abtruenning (disloyal), verraeterisch (traitorous) would not have been used except in the case of subjects; and later when the distress became more pressing he exercised one of the rights expressly given in the Constitution to landgraves, caciques, and lords of manor, when he gave his people permission to leave their farms. ❋ Unknown (1920)
Weeping bitterly, she buried the body in the family vault of the landgraves of Thuringia in the monastery of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
