Crossword-Solution: GEMOTE 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But Cnut was of nobler stuff than Æthelred, and his conquest of the realm was followed by the gathering of a new gemote at Oxford to resume the work of reconciliation which Eadric had interrupted.

Germ._ _c._ 11.] WITH us in England this general council hath been held immemorially, under the several names of _michel-synoth_, or great council, _michel-gemote_ or great meeting, and more frequently _wittena-gemote_ or the meeting of wise men.

But although the king himself had so little authority, that it cannot be supposed for a moment that his laws were regarded as imperative by the people, it has nevertheless been claimed, in modern times, by some who seem determined to find or make a precedent for the present legislative authority of parliament, that his laws were authoritative, _when assented to_ by the _Witena-gemote_, or assembly of wise men--that is, the bishops and barons.

These places he furnished with Officers, and assigned foure Termes in the yere for determining controuersies among the people: whereas before all suites were summarily heard and determined in the _Gemote_ or monthly conuention in euery hundred, without either formalities or delay.

Women landowners sat in the Shire Gemote, or held Motes of their own; women Burgesses were present at Folkmotes, or at Revemotes.