- instance, in the
right to slay a
thief caught red-handed (infangentheof). A
sokeman belonged to a
class of tenants,
found chiefly in the
eastern counties,...
- and 50% of the po****tion in the
countryside had the
legal status of '
sokeman',
occupying an
intermediate position between the free
tenants and the bond...
- Peterborough,
whose tenant was
called Kolgrimr in 1086, and 77
tofts held by
sokeman tenants of
thegns settled nearby. The
manor sta**** in
royal hands and was...
- such as sac and soc, toll and term, infangthef, utfangthef, thane, dreng,
sokeman, hide, geld, hundred, wapentake, bote, wite and wer with
Norman French...
-
Saxon thegn, Bardi, and held 11
carucates with 29 villeins, 11 borders, 6
sokeman, a
church and priest, and 8 mills, 1 acre (0.4 hectares) of woodland, 320...
- Alsi had 7
bovates of land taxable, Land for 10 oxen, odo has 1 plough, 1
sokeman on 1
bovate of this land; 5
villieins and 4
borders with 1½ ploughs, a...
- "Cattle lord") or Ócaire. The Anglo-Saxon
equivalent was
perhaps the
sokeman. The
highest rank of the serf on
monastic estates, and beyond, was called...
-
eight ploughs.
There are two
ploughs in
demesne and ten
villans and one
sokeman and two
bordars having three ploughs and
another tenant paying rent with...
-
Norman Conquest of England; in
Domesday its fee
consisted of 1 carucate, 1
sokeman, 2
villeins and 27
acres of meadow. It was
sokeland of the
abbot of Ramsey's...
