Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Folkmote
Folk′mote′ (·mōt′), n. [AS. folcmōt folk meeting.] An assembly of the people; esp. (Sax. Law), a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court. [Hist.]
To which folkmote they all with one consent Agreed to travel. Spenser.