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It had always existed in one form or another, extending back continuously to the "witenagemot" of the Anglo-Saxons.— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
* -- Associated with the king in the conduct of public business was the council of wise men, or witenagemot.— The Governments of Europe
He ruled as an English king; his feudal council was the witenagemot with a new qualification; but at the same time he was lord of the land as no king had been before him, and he enjoyed not only all the income of his predecessors but in addition all the dues which came to him as feudal sovereign.— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
For the law was but universal custom, and that custom had no sanction; but for breach of the custom anybody could make personal attack, or combine with his friends to make attack, on the person who committed the breach, and then, when the matter was taken up by the members of both tribes, and finally by the witenagemot as a judicial court, the question was, what the law was.— Introduction to the Science of Sociology
From the point of view of subsequent institutional history the most important features of the Anglo-Saxon governmental system were kingship, the witenagemot, and the units of local administration -- shire, hundred, borough, and township. [— The Governments of Europe
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