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. The Great Patents, their grantees, and the inhabitants upon them, were subject, in general and local matters, to whatever public territorial divisions of the Province embraced them, and the laws in force therein. The Manors, their Lords, and their inhabitants, whether tenants, or holders in fee simple of manor lands by purchase from the Lords, were subject only to the jurisdiction and courts of the Manors in local matters. Both, in all matters not local, were governed by the laws, courts, and the civil and military authorities, of the county and of the Province.

THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE 3IAN0RS.

There were in the county of Westchester Six Manors, which togetiier comprised by far the hirgest jiart of its area. The Great Patents were much more numerous, but together not so extensive in area. These latter and the Borough-Town of Westchester, with a few small original grants, formed the rest of the county as it was originally. The lower part of the Equivalent lands " or " The Oblong," received in settlement of a boundary dispute from the colony of Connecticut was not added to the county till the year 1731, and this too, was then embraced in a single Great Patent.