This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...that when the last of the so-called heptarchic kingdoms had been brought under the West Saxon supremacy, the primitive volkerschaften and their subdivisions were uniformly chosen, so far as practicable, as the administrative districts of the united monarchy. In other words, while the volkerschaft became a shire or gau ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...that when the last of the so-called heptarchic kingdoms had been brought under the West Saxon supremacy, the primitive volkerschaften and their subdivisions were uniformly chosen, so far as practicable, as the administrative districts of the united monarchy. In other words, while the volkerschaft became a shire or gau and the original gau or hundred became an undergau, the heptarchic stamm kingdoms were ignored.1 It is in the laws of Eadgar also that mention is first made of the wapentake, an organization found only in connection with the Anglian shires.2 Moreover the name is of Scandinavian origin, and seems to have reference to the touching of the arms of the local magistrate in recognition of his authority.8 It is therefore probable that the institution was introduced into England by the Danes; and scholars have hitherto regarded it as merely an equivalent for the hundred of the southern shires. But the recent investigations of Canon Taylor have. raised serious doubts as to the correctness of this view. He shows that the evidence of Domesday goes to prove, if indeed it does not completely demonstrate, that the wapentake was an administrative district comprising just three hundreds. Thus he is able to name the three hundreds of each of the six wapentakes of the east riding of Yorkshire; and while this can not 1 Cf. Henry Adams, the Anglo-Saxon Courts of Law, Essays, 5 ff.; and Chap. VI, in, (a), below. The question of the numerical significance of the term hundred has already been discussed; but, on the theory that each of the English hundreds comprised a hundred hides, see further, Pearson, Hist. Maps, 28 f., 57; Ellis, Int. to Domesday, 184; Schmid, Oesetze, 614; Dialog. de Seac., c. 17: Select Charters, 209; Stubbs, Const. Hist., I, 99; Taylor, Wapenta...
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