англия, раннее средневековье, государство и право, полиция, патронат и клиентела, сотня, коллективное принуждение, поручительство, anglo-saxon england, law and administration, police, patronage and clientele, hundred, collective coercion, warranty, frankpledge, Law, History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, AZ20-999

The article, which is based predominantly on the legislative sources, deals with the ways of administration and police within Anglo-Saxon society which was inherited from the barbarian age and then used by a nascent medieval state. There are patronage and hundredal organization among them. Both were coercive obligations put on the subjects by the kings. The land-lords were made king's agents which were warrantors for their men. All free people were made members of the hundreds and the tithings which formed the so called «frankpledge system».