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Hundred

accounts make it consist of precisely a hundred hides: others, of a hundred tithing, or of a hundred fee families. Certain it is that whatever may have been its original organization, the hundred, at the period when … to King Alfred, and he may possibly have introduced it into England, though it was established among the Franks in the sixth century. In the capitularies of Charlemagne we meet with it in the form known among