Excerpt from Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire The word shire is of Old English origin and meant office, charge, administration. The Norman Conquest introduced the word county - through French from the Latin comitatus, Which in mediaeval document's desig nates the shire. C ounty is the district ruled by a count, the king's comes, the equivalent of the older English term earl. This system of local administration entered Scotland as part of the anglo-norman influence that strongly affected our country after the year ...
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Excerpt from Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire The word shire is of Old English origin and meant office, charge, administration. The Norman Conquest introduced the word county - through French from the Latin comitatus, Which in mediaeval document's desig nates the shire. C ounty is the district ruled by a count, the king's comes, the equivalent of the older English term earl. This system of local administration entered Scotland as part of the anglo-norman influence that strongly affected our country after the year 1100. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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