s, and senior clergy, to discuss matters of both national and local importance. Constitution and limitations Despite historians' best efforts to find in it some permanence of character, the exact nature of the witenagemot remains "essentially vague, fluctuating, and incoherent." Nevertheless, there's much direct evidence of the witan's various activities. Knowledge about who made up the witan and who was present at their meetings is provided mainly by lists of witnesses to charters, or grants of… (More on Witenagemot)