Hundred
.A county division mentioned in Domesday Book, and supposed to embrace ten tithings for military and constabulary purposes. If a crime was committed (such as robbery, maiming cattle, stack-burning, etc.), these sureties were bound to make it good, or bring the offender to justice.
Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Durham are divided into “wards” (q.v.).
Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Notts, into “wapentakes” (q.v.). Yorkshire has also a special division, called “ridings” (q.v.).
Sussex is divided into six rapes (1 syl.), with subordinate hundreds. (See Rapes.)
