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East hundred

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Victoria County History

Publication

A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2

Author

William Page (editor)

Year published

1935

Page

231

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'East hundred', A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2 (1935), pp. 231. URL: http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66241 Date accessed: 18 May 2013. Add to my bookshelf

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EAST HUNDRED
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EAST HUNDRED

containing the parishes of Casterton, Great; Casterton, Little; Empingham; Essendine; Ketton; Pickworth; Ryhall; Tickencote; Tinwell With Ingthorpe

This hundred was the hundred of Witchley (Hwicceslea) East of the Northamptonshire Geld Roll of about 1075, and formed the northern part of the Domesday hundred of Witchley (Wiceslea) then in Northamptonshire. (fn. 1) It is mentioned as East Hundred in 1166. (fn. 2) The court, it would seem, was held at Witchley Heath or Warren in Edith Weston and Ketton parishes. Pickworth was not included in the hundred (fn. 3) until the 18th century, but Horn was in the hundred in the 14th and 15th centuries. (fn. 4) East Hundred followed the descent of Alstoe Hundred, and now apparently belongs to the Crown.

The hundred of Little Casterton in this hundred has been dealt with under Little Casterton parish (q.v.).

Footnotes

1 See above in the account of the county.
2 Pipe R. Soc. ix, 65.
3 Feud. Aids, iv, 205, 207, 212.
4 Ibid. 205, 208, 214.