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Post by Daniel Silk on Oct 19, 2010 17:03:54 GMT
The old maps show a "FolkMoot" in Silkby What is a Folkmoot? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)"In Anglo-Saxon England, a folkmoot or folkmote (Old English - "meeting of the people") was a governing general assembly consisting of all the free members of a tribe, community or district. It was the forerunner to the witenagemot, which was in turn in some respects the precursor of the modern Parliament."
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Post by Daniel Silk on Oct 19, 2010 17:06:27 GMT
users.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/glossary.html#mootmoot Deriving from a Old English term meaning "meeting", a moot was a decision-making mechanism. As folkmoot, it was a usually open-air gathering of a community, sometimes headed by a royal official (in which manifestation it might be a shiremoot, hundred-moot, or burh-moot), for the administration of local affairs and particularly the administration of justice through local custom. Under Alfredian law, the folkmoot seems to be the mainstay of legal administration. Towns had their own version of the moot, which had aspects both of court and of council meeting; the various names by which versions of this was known in different towns included burhgemot, portmoot, portmanmoot, assembly, and congregation. Assembly and congregation represented more the legislative aspect of the folkmoot, while the others were more the judicial aspect; decision-making remains at the root of each. Husting was yet another term used for a court whose origins may be said to lie with the moot. The term, with Norse derivations (possibly associated with a verb "to speak"), refers to a meeting of the folk (Anglo-Saxon "thing") – that is male adult free men – inside a building (house), in contrast with the open-air folkmoot. The Viking "thing" had legislative and judicial functions; its method of voting, said to be by participants making a noise with their weapons, was known as "wapentake", and this later became associated with the region over which the thing had jurisdiction. Although medieval London had both a folkmoot and a husting (the latter visible as early as the tenth century), we should not read too much into this differentiation.
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Post by Daniel Silk on Oct 19, 2010 17:10:21 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Oct 19, 2010 17:11:13 GMT
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