The erection of ' Manors ' by the English in New York, like the previous creation of ' Patroouships,' by the Dutch in the same Province, was simply the establishment and carrying out, of what they deemed the best method of promoting the growth and development of their new possession under their own laws and customs. To the same idea is due the granting therein of similar large tracts of land which were not manors. The latter, the ' Great Patents,' as they were called, were usually granted to several grantees. The Manoi's were necessarily granted to one only. The franchises, privileges, and other valuable incidents, which the Manors possessed, and which the Great Patents did not possess, were much fewer than is generally supposed. The term ' feudal,' popularly applied to the former, has caused much misconception. The tenure of both classes of these crown grants was precisely the same, being " in free and common socage as of the Manor of East Greenwich in the county of Kent," which has been already explained. The greatest difference between them lay in the peculiar public incidents, as they may be called, which constituted a Manor, incidents essential to its existence, and which related more to the government and good order of the territory of the Manor and the protection of the inhabitants, and their rights as Englishmen, than to the power and profit of the Lord. Tenants could, and did, take up lands under the grantees of the Great Patents, as well as under the Lords of the Manors. The former could, and did, settle people upon their Patents under leases, as well as deeds in fee, just as the latter did upon their Manors. Both classes of Proprietors sold in fee, or granted on leases of different kinds, just as their interests or wishes dictated.