Gilbert, George, Collins, William Wiehe, 1862- ill · New York : Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 120
appears,by some authorities, to be based on the militaryorganisation. It is supposed, in the first instance,to be a grouping of a sufficient number of freehomesteads to furnish at least one hundred andtwenty fully-armed freemen for war service, and tosupply full-qualified jurors for the cases of… … WELLS nal and civil court with its grand jury, and en-forced the attendance of persons from each manorwithin the hundred. When the king was absentfrom the shire-moot, the ealdorman (alderman)of the shire presided, and to watch the royal in-terests was nominated the shire-reeve, or…
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