Wapentakes

Word WAPENTAKES
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What do we mean by wapentakes?

An administrative subdivision in northern English counties, developed under Norse influence, and corresponding to hundreds in the rest of England.

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The word "wapentakes" in example sentences

All counties, hundreds, wapentakes, and trithings (except our demesne manors) shall remain at old rents, and without any additional payment. ***here may be an error ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

All counties, hundred, wapentakes, and trithings (except our demesne manors) shall remain at the old rents, and without any additional payment. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

In some of the more northern counties these hundreds are called wapentakes. ❋ Various (N/A)

A little room for his eccentricities remained, and long after the truth had become a matter of registered history, he could accept the legendary lies about the _Vengeur_; but there was no danger of his giving us French wapentakes brandishing iron-weapons, or calling a French noble by any appellation comparable to ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

All counties, hundreds, wapentakes, and trethings, shall stand at the old rents, without any increase, except in our demesne manors. ❋ John Fiske (1871)

The intense absurdity of his personified wapentakes, of his Tom-Jim-Jacks, of his courtesy-title bastards, he deliberately declined (as in the anecdote above given) to see. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

Alfred the (} reat divided England into counties; or, rather, he revived thofe diftinc tions: and, for the better prefervation of regularity and order, that wife prince fubdividcd each county into trcthings, or trithings; wapentakes, or hundreds; and tithings: a tre. ❋ Unknown (1783)

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