Lectures On the Principles of Local Government Delivered At the London School
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I am sure I need not insist on the importance of such evidence as this. Outside the influence of the manorial element which entered so largely into the township life of Southern England, outside the in- fluence of the seigniorial element which grew up with the Norman feudalism, outside the influence of Nor- man law and Norman sovereignty, but within the Teutonic area of settlement, the form of which was presented in "the Wiltshire and Sussex evidence, we have in these cases untouched examples o...f the town- ship organization as it first appeared upon the soil of Britain, when the only way of owning land was the membership of the community. The township-moot, a word which occurs in a charter of Richard I. , in its later development heard and adjudicated upon differences among the towns- men, contentious cases being carried to the hundred court; it elected its officers the town-gerefa, or town- reeve, and beadle ; it arranged the representation of its interests in the courts of the hundred and the shire, where the reeve and four best men appeared for the township ; it carried out the requisitions of the higher courts in the way of taxes and other ex- actions, the pursuit of criminals and the search for n8 PRINCIPLES OF stolen goods ; and on the institution of frankpledge it prepared the lists for the view of the sheriff.
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