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	Wapentake - LoveToKnow 1911
		WAPENTAKE, anciently the principal administrative division of the counties of York, Lincoln, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Rutland, corresponding to the hundred in the southern counties of England.
		North of the Tees, Sadberg in Durham is the only district which was called a wapentake, and the rest of the ancient administrative divisions of the three northern counties were called wards.
		Wapentakes are not found outside the parts of England which were settled by the Danes.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Wapentake (209 words)

	Harthill Wapentake \| British History Online
		The Wapentake, the largest in the East Riding, extends from the river Hull in the east to the river Derwent in the west, and in places reaches the Humber in the south.
		The area of Harthill wapentake was reduced in 1299 by the creation of the borough of Kingston upon Hull, and again in 1440 when Hull was erected into a county of its own and the township of Myton was included in it.
		The enlargement of the county of Hull in 1447 involved the further removal from Harthill of the parishes of Hessle, with its township of Tranby, North Ferriby, with the township of Swanland, and Kirk Ella, with the townships of Anlaby, West Ella, Willerby, and Wolfreton.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=23015 (1692 words)

	Wapentake
		A wapentake is a term derived from the Old Norse, the rough equivalent of an Anglo-Saxon hundred.
		The word denotes an administrative meeting place, typically a crossroads or at a ford in a river where attendance or voting would be denoted or conducted by the show of weapons.
		Wapentake is also the title of a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wa/Wapentake.html (60 words)

	GENUKI: Swine Supplementary
		"BURTON CONSTABLE, in the parish of Swine, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 3½ miles E. of Swine, 5 miles N. of Hedon.
		"FAIRHOLME, a farm house in the parish of Swine, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 1¾ miles NW.
		"OUBROUGH, 3 farm houses in the township of Ellerby, and parish of Swine, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 1¼ miles ENE.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/YKS/ERY/Swine/more.html (670 words)

	Hundred (country subdivision) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A wapentake is a term derived from the Old Norse vápnatak [2], the rough equivalent of an Anglo-Saxon hundred.
		The counties of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Lincolnshire were divided into wapentakes, just as most of the remainder of England was divided into hundreds.
		In some counties, such as Leicestershire, the wapentakes recorded at the time of the Domesday Book evolved into hundreds later on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wapentake (1092 words)

	Rand St Oswald
		In Table 1 the patron of every church in the wapentake of Wraggoe, where known, is indicated and the fee to which the church belonged is identified by reference to its Domesday Book counterpart.
		This is a truly remarkable pattern in the light of the complexities of tenurial structure in the wapentake.
		The pattern of advowsons in the wapentake suggests that here was a minster in caput of the manor with daughter churches, of which Rand was one, within the soke.
	www.roffe.freeserve.co.uk /rand.htm (3555 words)

	University of York: Centre for Medieval Studies Home Page
		BIHR PR 2 576v 1408 Ralph Kylstern gild chaplain of the parish of Spofforth: 6s.8d.
		North Riding in the wapentake of Bulmer and the deanery of Bulmer, parish of All Saints.
		(Humberside: SE7722) West Riding in the wapentake of Osgoldcross and the deanery of Pontefract, chapel of ease in the Parish of St Mary Magdalene Whitgift.
	www.york.ac.uk /inst/cms/resources/crouch/S.htm (1870 words)

	The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire \| Events:Reports on Millennium Celebration events
		This was the fourth Nottinghamshire Heritage roadshow in the society’s series of six events – one in each of the historic wapentakes of the county.
		The roadshow concentrated on the Rushcliffe wapentake and was hosted by the Keyworth Local History Society in the palatial village hall.
		By 2pm everything was ready: the professionals had perfected their displays, teacups were tabled, cakes were cut, and the organisers and hosts were relaxed and smiling.
	www.thorotonsociety.org.uk /Thoroton_Society/events/milleniumevents.htm (1851 words)

	WIRKSWORTH-Parish Records 1608-1899-PRO documents
		DL 30/45/520 Ireton-Wood, Brassington, Wirksworth, Wirksworth Wapentake, with- [Kirk] Ireton, Bonsall, Dethick, Tansley, and Lea, Kniveton, Tissington and Lee, Middleton and Cromford, Hognaston, Wensley and Snitterton, Brassington and Aldwark, [Fenny] Bentley, Bradbou 50 Ed.
		DL 30/45/529 Wirksworth Wapentake, with- Middleton and Cromford, Hopton and Carsington, Hognaston, [Kirk] Ireton, Wensley and Snitterton, Middleton and Smerril, Brassington and Aldwark, Bonsall, Dethick, Tansley, and Lea, Elton, Kniveton, Eaton and Alsop, Matlock, Fen 5 to 7 [Ric.
		DL 30/54/666 Wirksworth Wapentake and Manor, with- Dethick and Lea, Wensley and Snitterton, Fenny Bentley, Bonsall, Kirk Ireton, Mappleton, Callow and Ible, Ballidon, Middleton and Cromford, Brassington and Aldwark, Hognaston, Bradbourne; [Derby]: Courts 19 Jas.
	www.wirksworth.org.uk /A34-pro.htm (7903 words)

	Roffe PhD: Local government.
		The unit is found throughout the county with the exception of the wapentake of Thurgarton.
		But the concept of the half wapentake does suggest that the two institutions constituted an integrated system, and therefore, by implication, shared a common origin, for it implies that there was an appropriate size of wapentake and number within the county.
		Breach of the peace given in the wapentake was amended by one hundred which was one sixth of the penalty exacted in the borough, that is, the proto-shire court.
	www.roffe.freeserve.co.uk /phd/phd060.htm (7019 words)

	WAPENTAKE - Online Information article about WAPENTAKE
		district which was caller: a wapentake, and the See also:
		The word wapentake seems to have been first applied to the periodical meetings of the magnates of a district; and, if we may believe the 12th See also:
		rule each wapentake had its own See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VIR_WAT/WAPENTAKE.html (416 words)

	What is a wapentake?
		The word derived from an assembly or meeting place, usually at a cross-roads or near a river, where literally one's presence or a vote was taken by a show of weapons.
		Maps of the Ridings showing Wapentakes are in Protestation Returns 1641-42 by J.S.W. Gibson and Alan Dell, published by the Federation of Family History Societies 1995.
		An area known as the Ainsty, a district to the west of York, was until the 15th century a Wapentake of the West Riding but since then has come under the jurisdiction of the City of York.
	members.aol.com /wryorks/wapen.htm (644 words)

	Research Articles
		The aim of this essay is to investigate aspects of the development of public assembly in the Danelaw area of early medieval England using topographic, place-name and archaeological evidence for hundred and wapentake meeting-places.
		In many parts of the former Danelaw, the wapentake fulfilled very similar functions to the hundred, although wapentakes were often larger than the hundreds of southern and western England.
		Even so, Hadley follows Roffe’s arguments that the wapentake system of public administration in the Danelaw was established in the mid-tenth century (Hadley, 1996: 6; Roffe, 1986: 110).
	www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk /5/turner.html (5769 words)

	Paull Lighthouses : the village of Paull
		Its name is very applicable to its situation, which is very much exposed to the winds; it is very near to the Humber, and the summit of Boreas Hill commands a fine prospect of her wide and expanded streams, with the numerous vessels sailing on its bosom.
		Preston, is a well built village and township, in the parish of its name, in the same division and wapentake as Hedon, 1 mile n.
		The church, which is dedicated to Allhallows, is a very neat and commodious Gothic building, and stands in the centre of the village : the living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the sub-dean of York ; the present incumbent is the rector of the parish of Hedon.
	paull-lighthouses.freeservers.com /history.html (1425 words)

	Lincolnshire Eyre, A.D. 1202
		The county together with the wapentake says that they were appealed, not of the king's peace, but of the sheriff's peace, so that the suit was and is in the county [court], and therefore they were not attached to come before the justices.
		And the jurors of the wapentake of Wraggoe where he was slain, on being asked, said that they suspect them of the said death.
		And the wapentake says that the alleged [imprisonment] took place in Lent, and Guy did not show the matter to the wapentake until a fortnight before St. Botulph's day.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/seth/pleas-lincolneyre.html (2176 words)

	Wapentake — FactMonster.com
		The word means “toucharms,” it being the custom of each vassal, when he attended the assemblies of the district, “to touch the spear of his overlord in token of homage.” Victor Hugo, in his novel of L'Homme qui Rit, calls a tipstaff a “wapentake.”
		Wapentake - Wapentake A division of Yorkshire, similar to that better known as a hundred.
		A manor-court for petty offences; the day on which such a court was held.
	www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/wapentake.html (155 words)

	GENUKI: Swine Supplementary
		"FAIRHOLME, a farm house in the parish of Swine, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 1¾ miles NW.
		"OUBROUGH, 3 farm houses in the township of Ellerby, and parish of Swine, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 1¼ miles ENE.
		"TURMER HALL, a farm house in the parish of Swine, wapentake and liberty of Holderness; 1¼ miles ENE.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/YKS/ERY/Swine/more.html (671 words)

	VCH Yorkshire East Riding II, 0197227384, £60.00/$105.00, 384pp, 1974
		Much of the rolling wold land was occupied by open fields and sheep- walks until inclosure in the later 18th and earlier 19th centuries opened the way to improvement; on the lower ground much early inclosure took place, too.
		A dozen villages in the wapentake were depopulated in the Middle Ages.
		The wapentake contains a wide variety of ecclesiastical and domestic architecture, but there are two outstanding buildings: the great priory church at Bridlington, which survived the Dissolution with the loss of its chancel and tower, and the early-17th-century red-brick mansion of Burton Agnes Hall, replacing an old manor-house but retaining its 12th-century undercroft.
	www.boydell.co.uk /97227384.HTM (456 words)

	wapentake - OneLook Dictionary Search
		WAPENTAKE : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		WAPENTAKE : The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary) [home, info]
		Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds.
	www.onelook.com /?w=wapentake (233 words)

	North Riding of Yorkshire
		This place is remarkable for having been the birth place of Henry Jenkins, who lived to the amazing age of 169 years [died in 1670].
		"MELSONBY, a parish in the wapentake of Gilling West, and liberty of Richmondshire; 5 miles N. of Richmond: a retired agricultural village.
		"BARDEN DYKES, 3 farm houses in the parish of East Hauxwell, township of Barden, wapentake of Hang-West; 3 miles from Leyburn, 5 from Richmond and Middleham."......
	freespace.virgin.net /bob.ellerton/N-Riding.htm (762 words)

	››› buch.de - bücher - versandkostenfrei - A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume ...
		A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume VII Holderness Wapentake, Middle and North Divisions
		This is an authoritative, fully-referenced history of the Holderness Wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
		Based on original research and extensive fieldwork, the volume will be indispensable for local and family historians.
	www.buch.de /buch/06653/253_a_history_of_the_county_of_york_east_riding_volume_vii_holderness_wapentake_middle_and_north_divisions.html (121 words)

	University of York: Centre for Medieval Studies Home Page
		(North Yorkshire: SE5341) West Riding in the wapentake of Ainsty and the deanery of Ainsty, parish of All Saints.
		(West Yorkshire: SE4243) West Riding in the wapentake of Barkston Ash and the deanery of Ainsty, peculiar of the liberty of St Peter, parish of All Saints.
		(Humberside: TA1147) East Riding in the wapentake of Holderness and the deanery of Holderness, part in the liberty of the provost of Beverley, parish of St Mary.
	www.york.ac.uk /inst/cms/resources/crouch/B.htm (1421 words)

	buckland05chpII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The "Wapentakes" of the Northern Counties; corresponding to the "Hundreds" of the Southern Counties, were districts originally formed by counting the heads of families and varied in size, but the district once fixed remained the same whether the population increased or decreased.
		When a man took command of the Wapentake, on a certain day all the heads of families met him; he dismounted from his horse; they rode to meet him; he raised his lance and they touched it with theirs.
		The "Geld" or the "Danegeld" was originally a tax for which the whole country was assessed by Ethelred to buy off the Danes, but it was made permanent and annually collected for the purposes of the King.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /woodborough-heritage/buckland/buckland05chpII.html (1494 words)

	The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire \| Events:Millennium Year events
		Adrian and Valerie Henstock - the Richard and Judy of the wapentake scene - slipped into their very professional and informative continuous commentary on the passing scene in the Bingham wapentake.
		He explained the function of the wapentakes as assemblies of free men and the unique nature of the combined county court and sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
		Particularly of interest to members of the Society was the section on wapentakes which tied together knowledge gained during the year's wapentake visitations.
	www.thorotonsociety.org.uk /Thoroton_Society/events/millyear.htm (3463 words)

	WIRKSWORTH-Parish Records-"Miners Guide" by HARDY 1762
		WIRKSWORTH WAPENTAKE Water, or for want of Wind; then he ought if he can conveniently, to give Notice to the Parties that neglect to work according to Custom; then he shall nick the Spindle, each Week a nick for three Weeks together.
		WIRKSWORTH WAPENTAKE following, unless some just Cause be shewed to the contrary, may order the Party or Parties, that have refused and neglected to pay Charges and keep Company, that he or they shall come and pay Charges and keep Company with his or their Part Owners.
		WIRKSWORTH WAPENTAKE full as much Ore, or the Value thereof, as they conceive is gotten wrongfully, without allowing any Charge for getting the same; and the Party offending herein, shall forfeit for every such Offence, Five Shillings and Four-pence; which Fine the Bar-master or his steward shall have.
	www.wirksworth.org.uk /Miners-1.htm (3252 words)

	Family of Boothby part 1
		King Egbert caused the Heptarchy to be divided into Counties, Hundreds, and Wapentakes, and it is found that one of the Wapentakes of Lincolnshire is called Boothby, a conjectural proof that it then or originally belonged to a family of that name.
		William Camden, the author of "Brittania," in the sixteenth century, speaking of Lincolnshire, says: "The Hundred or Wapentake of Boothby, Boothby Pagnell, a market town, and a gentleman's old seat called Boothby, were denominated from one Boothby who there inhabited."-BURKE.
		This family takes its surname from the Wapentake or Hundred of Boothby, and the manor of Boothby in the County of Lincoln.
	www.fiddlelily.com /hist1.htm (537 words)

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