 The union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace and defence, formed what is known as the hundred or wapentake, in Anglo-Saxon times. "It is very probable,  ... Rutland - Page 123by George Phillips - 1912 - 171 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Questions and answers - 1887 - 678 pages
...reference given. In the previous section the bishop states that " the union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace,...formed what is known as the hundred or wapentake"; and again," The wapentake in all respects of administration answers directly to the hundred." All his... | |
 | William Stubbs - Constitutional history - 1874 - 658 pages
...hundred2. The 45. The union of a number of townships for the purpose of hundred ........ , „ and wapen- judicial administration, peace, and defence, formed what is known as the hundred or wapentake ; a district answering to the pagus of Tacitus, the haerred of Scandinavia, the huntari or gau3 of... | |
 | William Stubbs - Constitutional history - 1874 - 658 pages
...only known as carrying out the police system of the hundred2. 45.^The union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace,...formed what is known as the hundred or wapentake\ a district answering to the pagus of Tacitus, the Juerred of Scandinavia, the huntari or gau3 of Germany.... | |
 | Whitby abbey - Cartularies - 1879 - 520 pages
...consequently cousin to Abbot William. 3 M. wapeutac. 4 M. Hundred. " The union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace...and defence, formed what is known as the hundred or wapeniake." — (Stubbs's Const. Hist. i. 96.) The occurrence therefore of dues arising out of both... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - Academic libraries - 1886 - 576 pages
...does not appear that " hundreds " were ever established in Canada. The union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace...and defence, formed what is known as the hundred or wapcntake, in Anglo-Saxun times. "It is very probable," writes Stubbs (i. 96, 97) "that the colonists... | |
 | Edward Pease Allinson, Boies Penrose - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1887 - 576 pages
...does not appear that "hundreds" were ever established in Canada. The union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace...and defence, formed what is known as the hundred or vmpentake, in Anglo-Saxon times. "It is very probable," writes Stubbs (i. 96, 97) "that the colonists... | |
 | Edward Peacock - English language - 1889 - 676 pages
...WAP.— (i) A blow. (2) Trembling ; palpitation. WAPENTAKE. — " The union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace,...formed what is known as the hundred or wapentake, a district answering to the pagus of Tacitus, the harred of Scandinavia, the huntari or gau of Germany.... | |
 | J. R. Boyle - Church architecture - 1895 - 540 pages
...word is a relic of the Danish occupation of the district : — "The union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace,...and defence, formed what is known as the hundred, or Toafeniate. . . . The terms wapentake and hundred are both, in Anglo-Saxon records, of somewhat late... | |
 | Somerset (England) - 1897 - 636 pages
...jurisdiction there was, for the most part, the court of the manor. The union of a number of townships for the purpose of judicial administration, peace, and defence formed what is known as the hundred.1 Within the hundred were liberties or franchises in which the jurisdiction was in private... | |
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