A hundred was a group of parishes. In the late thirteenth
century enquiries were made by central government into local royal
rights and privileges, and the documents resulting from these
enquiries are known as the Hundred Rolls. These Rolls (now held at
the National Archives in Kew) list the villeins, freemen and
cottage tenants, with their holdings and obligations, as well as
the extents of the lords' own holdings.
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