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A subdivision of some English shires (as Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire) corresponding to a hundred.

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  • As you seem to have intuited from your own research on your site, the exact meaning of wapentake is a little obscure.
  • I remember seeing Tolkien use it in a military context, leading me to say, "Oh! He assumes wapentake is a kind of war counsel."
  • Tolkien seems to use only the modernized form; at least I haven't found an actual "wapentake" in my copy of LOTR, or in the few reference works I have taken out of...
  • So what did Tolkien think that wapentake originally meant?
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