Note 141 — Chapter III · THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLAND IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES.[82]
Reading edition
Witena-Gemót = Sapientum concilium. Sir Francis Palgrave suggests (i. 143) that Witan is used in the sense of witnesses; but sapientes is the common Latin translation. The Senate of Bremen used to be called “Die Wittheit,” and the Senators of all the three Hanseatic Towns were till lately called “hoch- und wohl-Weisheit.”