1844, Thomas Erskine May, A Treatise Upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage:
He considers it "Incumbent on the historical antiquary to show, not when the people acceded to the wittena-gemotes, but when, if ever, they were divested of the right of attending them," […]
1855, James Wayland Joyce, England's Sacred Synods: A Constitutional History, page 181:
It must again be repeated that during this period [804–1070] the clergy were "alone and by themselves as the peculiar officers and administrators of religion" in synods, they were in the mixed councils and wittena-gemotes as "common subjects" […]
1867, The Law Lexicon Or Dictionary of Jurisprudence, entry on Parliament:
There appear to have been wittena-gemotes in each of the kingdoms composing the Saxon Heptarchy, and these, after the union of the kingdoms, became united into one great assembly or council.
1807, James Ingram, An Inaugural Lecture on the Utility of Anglo-Saxon, page 24:
What arc our present Parliaments, but the revival of the free and simple witena-gemotes of our Saxon ancestors ? It is remarkable indeed, that the establishment of this bulwark of our constitution is coeval with the destruction of Norman tyranny, […]
1864, S. M. Johnson, Free Government in England and America, page 136:
In proportion as the sovereign gained in prerogative, the powers of the witena-gemote of Wessex, the predominant kingdom, would gradually gain strength also.
1874, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin:
Whether purely conciliar action ceased, or whether it be that the assimilation of the national witena-gemotes to the older ecclesiastical councils renders it difficult to distinguish between lay and spiritual assemblies, the result is the same.
1890, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England: In Its Origin, volume 3:
[…] of the poor, legislation of the witenagemotes of Ethelred, although there seems to be no evidence that it was ever carried into effect, bore the same mark; […]