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A History of the County of Bedford
… Tovi the priest held a half-hide of him, 65 while two sokemen held the other. 66 It is possible, as the bishop held …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… that thegn. The remainder of the vill was occupied by 20 sokemen, mostly commended to King Edward. In 1086 Ramsey … until sold in 1920. 198 Economic History. Of the twenty sokemen who had owned land at Bourn in 1066, only seven …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… number of teams matching the land available. In 1066 three sokemen holding 4 a. and a man of Earl Alfgar holding 2 a. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… abbots of Ramsey. There had been an important court of the sokemen of Broughton going back to the reign of Edward the … It is specially noted in the Domesday Survey that the sokemen claimed fines for 'leyrwite' or incontinence and for … geld. There were in the time of King Edward 5 hides of sokemen's land which paid geld, but the land and the soke had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the social scale: he claimed that his ancestors had been sokemen and therefore free, serving 40 days in war with coat … i. 333; and see above, p. 40. V.C.H. Oxon. i. 403. The sokemen mentioned in 1279 in Drayton and Burcot were perhaps …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Lichfield, held the manor in demesne. There were also two sokemen there holding 3 virgates which they had been unable …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… rebuilt in 1808 in the Georgian style. 94 In 1066 two sokemen held 100 a. under Eddeva the fair, which by 1086 had …
A History of the County of Bedford
… two manors in CHICKSANDS, one of which was held by three sokemen of Azelina wife of Ralph Taillebois, who claimed it … V.C.H. Beds. i, 242. These were held of Hugh by three sokemen and had been held T.R.E. by four sokemen. Harl. Chart. 45, I, 7. Ibid. I, 18. Chart. R. 13 …
A History of the County of Bedford
… in Cardington which had formerly belonged to thirteen sokemen. 8 This estate follows the same descent as the barony … de Albini held a manor of 6 hides in Harrowden, which 14 sokemen held freely under King Edward the Confessor. 28 From …
A History of the County of Bedford
… the bishop by Herbert son of Ivo, who in his turn had two sokemen holding of him, an exceptional case at Domesday of an …