- area of
Britain because the rank and file of the
Danish armies, from whom
sokemen were descended, had
settled in the area and
imported their own
social system...
- area of
Britain because the rank and file of the
Danish armies, from whom
sokemen were descended, had
settled in the area and
imported their own
social system...
- in the
Domesday Book of 1086,
identified as Sudtone.
There were then 9
sokemen, 8
villeins (each with 7.5 acres), 15
cotters and 7 serfs. In 1109, the...
- Bosworth, one
belonging to an Anglo-Saxon
knight named Fernot, and some
sokemen.
Following the
Norman conquest, as
recorded in the
Domesday Book of 1086...
- to
twelve ploughs.
Geoffrey de
Wirce has
there two ploughs, and
eight sokemen, with two
carucates and five
oxgangs of this land; and
thirteen villanes...
- (1086)
records that
Gainsborough was a
community of farmers,
villeins and
sokemen,
tenants of
Geoffrey de Guerche. The
Lindsey Survey of 1115–1118 records...
- counties,
especially Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, were due from the
sokemen, but the
manor of
Hitchin was
unique in
levying inward.
Evidence has been...
-
Geoffrey of la Guerche. The
settlement was
small with one
ploughland and six
sokemen. A 1620s
scheme by
Vermuyden for
drainage of the Isle of
Axholme and Hatfield...
-
There are now 3
ploughs in demesne, and 11
villains and 2
bordars and 3
sokemen having 5½ ploughs.
There is a
church and 1 mill [rendering] 12d and 35...
- is
mentioned in the
Domesday Book of 1086,
giving a po****tion of "two
sokemen and four villeins". The
village remained a
small settlement (po****tion...
