Tithing

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A tithing or tything was a historic English legal, administrative or territorial unit, originally ten hides (and hence, one tenth of a hundred). Tithings later came to be seen as subdivisions of a manor or civil parish. The tithing's leader or spokesman was known as a tithingman.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Dictionary definition of "Tithing" Archived 2013-04-16 at archive.today
  2. ^ Dictionary definition of "Tithingman". Webster's Online Dictionary. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  3. ^ Kenneth F. Duggan "The Limits of Strong Government: Attempts to Control Criminality in Thirteenth-Century England" Historical Research 93:261 (2020) pp. 402–409