Tribal Hidage
The Tribal Hidage is a list that specifies the size of 34 south of the Humber located Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and tribal areas.
The original list was created in Mercia between the middle of the 7th and the late 9th century. Whether the Tribal Hidage represents a unified work or been gathered over a longer period is unknown, as the intended use. Maybe it is a tribute or tax list. The many called small central England ethnic groups and tribes point to older social structures, from which also went Mercia and the other kingdoms of the Heptarchy. The spatial association of the smaller areas is partly uncertain.
The oldest surviving manuscript ( " A review " in MS Harley 3271 ) was written in Old English and dates from the 11th century. The Latin " Review B" from the 13th/14th century. Century has only minor differences.