B (1) an entire holding of a virgate (held by a sokeman of Earl Alan) is omitted (p.
But the point is that the latter could name the Abbot's sokeman (nameless in Domesday) and could supply his acreage and the value of his holding.
The note also on the Abbot of Ely's sokeman at Lollesworth (p.
Footnote 231: A sokeman of the Abbot of Ely at Suafham.
The sokeman had seldom beasts enough to make up a team.
Connecting this with the main object of the whole survey, we shall probably be brought to the guess that between the sokeman and the villein there is some broad distinction which concerns the king as the recipient of geld.
We have seen Orwell full of sokemen; in 1086 there is never a sokeman in it; there is no one in it who is above the rank of a villein.
When we are told that a certain English lord had a sokeman at a certain place, we must not jump to the conclusion that he had soke over that man of his.
What is more, our analysis of this Wetherley hundred enables us to drive home the remark that very often a sokeman was not the sokeman of his lord or, in other words, that he was not under seignorial justice[565].
But we are inclined to connect this entry with those relating to Wallingford and to Warwick and to believe that each sokeman has enjoyed a right to exact a sum of money for the breach of his peace.
Cambridgeshire is a county in which there are some, and have been many, sokemen; there is hardly a sokeman upon the ancient demesne.
Very rarely indeed do the Leges notice the sokeman or mention liberi homines so as to exclude the villani from the scope of that term[131].
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sokeman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
