Note 107 — Chapter II · THE ORDINARY TRAVELLER AND THE CASUAL PASSER-BY

“The county is divided into hundreds or into wapentakes or into wards, the term wapentake appearing in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, the term ward in the northernmost counties.” (“History of English Law before Edward I,” by Sir Frederick Pollock and F. W. Maitland, Cambridge, 2 vols., 1895, vol. i. p. 543.) At the head of the hundred was the bailiff, appointed by the sheriff, acting under him, and giving also rise to numerous complaints. See, e.g. “Rolls of Parliament,” ii. 357, a petition of 1376.