Meaning of trithing-reeve | Babel Free

Definitions

The official governing a trithing.

obsolete

Examples

“Where a county is divided into three of these intermediate jurisdictions, they are called trithings, which were antiently governed by a trithing-reeve. These trithings still subsist in the large county of York, where by an easy corruption they are denominated ridings; the north, the east, and the west-riding.”

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