Skirbeck Wapentake
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Skirbeck Wapentake
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Skirbeck Wapentake was an administrative unit in the Parts of Holland Lincolnshire, England from the early eleventh century at the latest, until the wapentakes were abolished by the Local Government Act of 1888. In most of England, the corresponding unit was the hundred, which was in principle, a grouping of a hundred households. Around a thousand years ago, it was important as a unit for gathering taxes and raising men for the 'citizen' army of the time, known as the Fyrd. The idea of the hundr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirbeck_Wapentake
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2022-04-22T03:48:39Z
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