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Bucks., and Oxford, was assigned to Ælfgar, appointed
later than Æthelstan the half-king. His son-in-law
Brihtnoth succeeded him, and fell at Maldon in 991 ;
followed by Leofsige, who was banished 1002. And
so the Danish kingdom gradually became a part of
England ; leaving, however, many traces of its former
independence.
One of the Suffolk hundreds took its name from
the howe at which the Danish Thing was held,
Thingoe or Tinghowe (Round’s Feudal England,
p. 98, quoting Gage’s Suffolk, p. xii.). Abbot Sampson’s
survey (about 1185) giyes tne names of the twelve "leets"
into which this hundred was divided,
strictly according to the duodecimal system of the
Scandinavians. Mr. Round compares the word
"leet," of which he gives examples from Domesday,
with the Danish Iægd, or division of the county for
military conscription, and we may add the nearer
form of the Icelandic leið, meaning at first a small
local assembly, though ultimately the word was used
for the third and last annual meeting of the Icelandic
commonwealth. Near Buckingham is Tingewick, and
in the south of Bedfordshire is Tingrith (Tingrye in
1250). But East Anglia is not divided into trithings
and wapentakes, as were parts which the Danes not
only ruled but settled : even Northamptonshire was not
assessed at Domesday by carucates but by hides, like
Wessex ; only the hides, Mr. Round finds, were taken
in groups of fours, just as the Mercian shilling contained
four pence ; while Cambridgeshire is assessed
for the most part in terms of five hides, on the
non-Danish system.
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