As you seem to have intuited from your own research on your site, the exact meaning of wapentake is a little obscure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defending the Tolkien Snobs] Reference

I remember seeing Tolkien use it in a military context, leading me to say, "Oh! He assumes wapentake is a kind of war counsel.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Defending the Tolkien Snobs] Reference

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 storage; nor in "Unfinished Tales" or, or parallel passages "The History of Middle Earth.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Defending the Tolkien Snobs] Reference

So what did Tolkien think that wapentake originally meant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defending the Tolkien Snobs] Reference

How many understand what Tolkien means by the wapentake, and how Tolkien's use of the term indicates what he thinks it must have meant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defending the Tolkien Snobs] Reference

My aside on Tolkien's use of wapentake has led to some really interesting and substantive posts at Gypsy Scholar and Wormtalk and Slugspeak.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on Tolkien and Wapentake] Reference

"I am a man of the north country, from the town of Beverley and the wapentake of Holderness," he answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company]

Likewise, in the chapter of claims, in the South Riding of the said county, the wapentake say, that Erneis de Buron, of right, ought to have the soc of four bovates of land in Sagesbi, about which there was a dispute between him and William de Perci.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference

Two uk boyz vigilamus pro te waiting for dorothy wapentake would be canadians you could use me yyz life best political blog 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [slavery. in the united states. today.] Reference

Every county, hundred, wapentake, and tithing shall remain at its ancient rent, without increase, except the royal demesne manors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magna Carta] Reference