A tithing or tything was a historic English legal, administrative or territorial unit, originally ten hides (and hence, one tenth of a hundred). Tithings later came to be seen as subdivisions of a manor or civil parish. The tithing's leader or spokesman was known as a tithingman.[1][2][3]
- ^ Dictionary definition of "Tithing" Archived 2013-04-16 at archive.today
- ^ Dictionary definition of "Tithingman". Webster's Online Dictionary. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- ^ Kenneth F. Duggan "The Limits of Strong Government: Attempts to Control Criminality in Thirteenth-Century England" Historical Research 93:261 (2020) pp. 402–409