wapentake

Each tree is covered with the coats of arms of the great families of that time in the wapentake.

"I am a man of the north country, from the town of Beverley and the wapentake of Holderness," he answered.

Then again, in several cases we find that the land-lord or land-rca shares the proceeds of a fine with the hundred or wapentake.

In Martinesleie Wapentake there is a hundred in which there are 12 carucates for geld and there can be 48 teams.

The wapentake of Bulmer is, as respects minute and accurate information, part of the terra incognita of Yorkshire.