Great Hundred (Noun)
Meaning
The cardinal number that is the product of ten and twelve.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The population of the village was over one hundred.
- In the great hundred of Carlton, a rich patron named Roger Bigod had endowed a chantry chapel.
- In 1208, a certain Alan of Chestre, probably the man who later became great hundred of Carlton, granted the abbot of Woburn.
- By the late eleventh century, it had been formed into a single liberty, the great hundred of Carlton.
- By the reign of King Stephen, Carlton was no longer part of the Buckinghamshire division of the Buckinghamshire Great Hundred of Potten, but a liberty of the crown.