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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: LATIN translation
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 17:18:17 GMT


In a previous article, (Edward J Schoenfeld) says:

>Hogo de Curtenay holds the estate (manerium probably = manor) of Colyton
>with half the "hundredi" (=hundred, an administrative district in
>anglo-Saxon times, what it means here I can't say for sure, possibly de
>Curtenay collects the taxes from the peasants in the old hundredi
>district)

Hundreds were used as administrative districts through to modern times.

Todd

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