Beside one smaller estate there are in this wapentake three manors.
In Nottinghamshire the Bishop of Lincoln had all the customs of the king and the earl throughout the wapentake of Newark[366].
In Martinesleie Wapentake there is a hundred in which there are 12 carucates for geld and there can be 48 teams.
C] ASTON, is a parish and township with Aughton, in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill.
Burh is contrasted with wapentake as town with country.
The lands of Earl Alan in the wapentake of Gilling had belonged to the Saxon Earl Edwin, and thus cannot have fallen to Alan's share before Edwin's death in 1071.
We have put down a full third part of all the alehouses within this wapentake; yet there are so great a multitude of poor miners within this wapentake that we are enforced to leave more alehousekeepers than otherwise we would.
We have no maltmakers in this wapentake but for their own use.
We have made especial inquiry touching enclosures made within these two years, but find very few within our division, for the most of our wapentake hath been long since enclosed.
The original returns will have been drawn upWapentake by Wapentake, and 'Hundred' by 'Hundred'.
Footnote 146: The aggregate of these areal measures does not bear out the statement of Domesday regarding them, the former Wapentake containing eighty-four ploughlands, where Domesday allows it only forty-eight.
For although drawn up, Wapentake by Wapentake, as is the Leicestershire Survey, Hundred by Hundred, the lands within each Wapentake described are grouped under the names of the holders of fiefs, instead of being entered Vill by Vill.
To the silence of the wapentake had succeeded the vision of torture to be endured.
The wapentake turned round in one motion, like a piece of mechanism revolving on its own pivot, and with grave and magisterial step proceeded towards the door of the Green Box.
The Duchess Josiana left London at the very moment that the wapentake appeared at the Tadcaster Inn to arrest Gwynplaine and take him to the torture cell of Southwark.
The wapentake passed through it, then the men, then the second torch.
The wapentake reappeared, holding high his weapon, under the reopened gate of the cemetery; then the chaplain with his book, and the gravedigger with his spade.
Gwynplaine was in the centre, the wapentake and his baton of iron being now behind him.
The wapentake and the justice of the quorum approached Gwynplaine and took him by the arms.
Scarcely any one in the caravans had any idea that the wapentake had come to take Gwynplaine.
The wapentake preceded Gwynplaine by a few steps, never turning round or looking at him, in that icy ease which is given by the knowledge that one is the law.
On a sign from the sheriff, the justice of the quorum and the wapentake advanced.
When the wapentake came I was at first a fool; one always doubts one's own good luck.
When Gwynplaine was seated, the justice of the quorum and the wapentake retired a few steps, and stood upright and motionless, behind the seat.
The wapentake and the justice of the quorum remained where they were, allowing Gwynplaine to advance alone.
It was the wapentake striking his wand against a sheet of iron.
At the same time, the wapentake bent down, took the man's temples between his hands, turned the inert head towards Gwynplaine, and with his thumbs and his first fingers lifted the closed eyelids.
The name of the same Henry also occurs first on the list of jurors for the hundred of West Derby, or Wapentake of Derbyshire, as it is called in the return when De Nevill's Inquisition was taken.
The Hemingas crowded round the son of Guthlaf, and swore that Oswith (they did not yet know him by the name of Lilla) was their leader, also performing the wapentake ceremony.
The union of marks formed a wapentake (Vopnatak), from the custom of touching the chief's spear in token of fealty.
The wapentake of Bulmer is, as respects minute and accurate information, part of the terra incognita of Yorkshire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wapentake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
