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TIL the Domesday Book, the oldest public legal record in England, from a survey in 1086. Shires were visited by royal officers, who held a public inquiry in the shire court. The unit of inquiry was the Hundred (a Hundred was comprised of ten Tithes of ten households). (Wapentakes in east England).

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