Editing Greenwich (section)

====Manor of East Greenwich====
[[Colonial charters in the Thirteen Colonies|Royal charters]] granted to English colonists in North America,<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/statech.asp#pa Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110704164538/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/statech.asp#pa |date=4 July 2011 }}.</ref> as well as in [[History of Bombay under British rule (1661–1947)|Company Bombay]] and [[St Helena]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Stern|first=Philip J.|year=2011|title=The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India|place=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0195393736|pages=23–24}}</ref> often used the name of the [[Manorialism|manor]] of East Greenwich for describing the tenure (from the Latin verb ''teneo'', hold) as that of free [[socage]].<ref>[http://www.eogen.com/manorofEastGreenwich Manor of East Greenwich] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905153324/http://www.eogen.com/manorofEastGreenwich |date=5 September 2015 }}.</ref> [[New England]] charters provided that the grantees should hold their lands "as of his Majesty's manor of East Greenwich". This was in relation to the principle of land tenure under English law, that the ruling monarch (king or queen) was paramount lord of all the soil in the ''terra regis'',<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/discover-domesday/great-domesday.htm National Archives, ''Great Domesday''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929010705/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/discover-domesday/great-domesday.htm |date=29 September 2015 }}.</ref> while all others held their lands, directly or indirectly, under the monarch. Land outside the physical boundaries of England, as in America, was treated as belonging constructively to one of the existing royal manors, and from Tudor times grants frequently used the name of the manor of East Greenwich,<ref>Words used in [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va01.asp ''The First Charter of Virginia; 10 April 1606''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101224739/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/va01.asp |date=1 November 2011 }} "...To BE HOLDEN of Us, [King James I] our heirs and Successors, as of our Manor at East-Greenwich, in the County of Kent, in free and common Soccage only, and not in Capite."</ref> but some 17th-century grants named [[Windsor Castle|the castle of Windsor]].<ref>Words used in [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/pa01.asp ''Charter for the Province of Pennsylvania-1681''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110428183155/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/pa01.asp |date=28 April 2011 }} "...to bee holden of Us [King Charles II], Our heires and Successors, Kings of England, as of Our Castle of Windsor in Our County of Berks, in free and comon Socage, by fealty only for all Services, and not in Capite or by Knights Service."</ref><ref>[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-13-02-0006 "N.N." ''On the Tenure of the Manor of East Greenwich''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171120085548/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-13-02-0006 |date=20 November 2017 }}.</ref><ref>Edward P. Cheyney, ''The Manor of East Greenwich'',  American Historical Review, Volume 11, 1 October 1905.</ref> Places in North America that have taken the name "East Greenwich" include [[East Greenwich Township, New Jersey|a township in Gloucester County, New Jersey]], [[East Greenwich, New York|a hamlet in Washington County, New York]], and [[East Greenwich, Rhode Island|a town in Kent County, Rhode Island]]. [[Greenwich, Connecticut]] was also named after Greenwich.