Re: Hundred Meaning?

Don Aitken <don-aitken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:0so9m1t5pp3ntg8ttt0vleqgnbgid0q1kd@xxxxxxx:

>>> Yorskshire and Sussex had wapentakes
>>
>>Yorkshire isn't in doubt. But Sussex?
>
> Yes, I was wrong there. Sussex had rapes. And Kent had lathes.

They had both hundreds and rapes/lathes, I think. A rape (or lathe in Kent)
consisted of a number of hundreds and there were half a dozen or so
rapes/lathes in the county.
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