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ˈcantred Hist.
Forms: 4–5 candrede, 5 candred, 5–7 cantrede, 6–9 cantred.
[app. an adaptation of cantref, assimilated to the Eng. hundred.]
A hundred; a district containing a hundred townships.
1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. I. 343 A candrede is a contray þat conteyneþ an hondred townes. 1480Caxton Descr. Brit. 20 Hundred and candred is all one. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, xxxiv. Preamb., Cantredes, comotes, hundredes..to the seid Castelles..belongyng. 1577Holinshed Chron. II. 10/2 Meeth conteineth but sixteene cantreds. 1587Harrison England ii. xix. (1877) i. 312 Essex hath in time past wholie beene forrest ground, except one cantred or hundred. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. vii 60 Two Knights Fees make a Cantred. 1614Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. Pref., The Shires divisions into Lathes, Hundreds, Wapentakes, and Cantreds. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 640 The city of Wexford and the two adjoining Cantreds. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. I. iv. 63 The cantred of Howel dha may answer to the hundred of Edgar.
†b. transf. Obs.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 139 That this..is evenly dealt out amongst the sundry Clubs and Cantreds of bodies. |