hundred-mote

Updated: July 3, 2025

By the treaty as settled at Runnymede a council of twenty-five barons were to be chosen from the general body of their order to enforce on John the observance of the Charter, with the right of declaring war on the king should its provisions be infringed, and it was provided that the Charter should not only be published throughout the whole country but sworn to at every hundred-mote and town-mote by order from the king.

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume I : Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216

Finally, the Charter was published throughout the whole country, and sworn to at every hundred-mote and town-mote by order from the King. Green's Short History of the English People, p. 123.

John Fiske - Civil Government in the United States Considered with: Some Reference to Its Origins