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Wards have a parallel function to Hundreds in the southern counties of England. They
are administrative subdivisions of counties, which began to go out of use in the late
16th century (?). Adjacent counties might have hundreds or wapontakes.
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descriptive text:- Keer 1605 (edn 1620)
item:- hundreds
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Map, Westmorlandia et Comberlandia, ie Westmorland and
Cumberland now Cumbria, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, probably
by Pieter van den Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1605, published
about 1605 to 1676.
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fourth page:- "[Dissolution, The] King Henry the eight, ... their revenues shadowed under his Crowne:
but the Province being freed from charge of subsidie, is not therefore divided into
Hundreds in the Parliament Rowles, ..."
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old text:- Gents Mag
item:- History and Antiquities of Leath Ward
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Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or
Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the
pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London,
monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1841 part 2 p.53
From a review of The History and Antiquities of Leath Ward, by Samuel Jefferson. "THE county of Cumberland is divided, not into Hundreds but into Wards, an arrangement which, according to this author, is owing, in common with the subdivision of other counties into hundreds, "to the wise policy of Alfred the Great." But had Alfred any jurisdiction over Cumberland? We rather imagine not. And if so, in what ancient record are the Wards first mentioned? This should be one of the first questions to be investigated by a Cumberland historian. Dr. Burn gives a more satisfactory account of this peculiar division of Cumberland and Westmorland. He says the Wards were "the districts of the like number of High Constables, who presided over the wards to be sustained at certain fords and other places, for repelling the plundering parties out of Scotland." (Burn's Westmorland, pp.12, 13.)"
"A very recent alteration has taken place in the division of Cumberland. The five Wards
of which it consisted have been formed into six."
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