The Hundred and the Geld

SINCE the publication of my ' Feudal England' I have lighted upon evidence tending to confirm the views advanced in it as to the assessment of the hundred for geld. In the cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester (in the possession of Earl Cowper), is an early charter of Henry II remitting for ever the ' geld ' on thirty-eight hides and one carucate of land belonging to the abbey. The localities affected are all specified, and are classified' according to hundreds, thus: De hundredo de Tcndringia, decem hidas in Biithlingscya et tres hidat in Wileya. I believe that this classification by hundreds is due to the position of the hundred as the unit of geld collection

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