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A History of the County of Essex
… Stanway manor itself was assessed at 5½ hides, and 16 sokemen held another 2 hides; 2 villani and a woman, holding … reduction not found elsewhere on the manor, the 16 sokemen having 2½ ploughs in 1066 and 1086, and the villanus …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in 1951. 52 Apart from two knights at Stanwell and two sokemen at West Bedfont most of the persons mentioned in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was Earl Harold's man, and the other half belonged to two sokemen who held of Azor, the lord of Stanwell. Brithman could dispose of his land freely but the sokemen needed their lord's permission to do so. By 1086 the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and by 1236 228 a group of serjeants, called king's sokemen in 1212, 229 were holding land under the obligation …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 8 bovates was held by customary tenants at a rent of 2, 18 sokemen (presumably the villein sokemen found on manors of ancient demesne) held 34 bovates … 177 Labour services were being commuted by this time: the sokemen paid 7 s. 6 d. in lieu of customary works and the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from a holding of 3¾ hides, possessed in 1066 by two sokemen of the abbot of Ely and in 1086 by Picot the sheriff, … Aelfric the monk (1½ hide). With a hide occupied by four sokemen of King Edward that land was appropriated by 1086 by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… held 3 hides in demesne farm of the monks, while three sokemen of the abbot occupied another 2 hides. That land, with the two hides possessed by 19 more sokemen commended to King Edward, had all been occupied by … each occupied 1 hides, her man Ordmaer 4 hides, and six sokemen the 1 hides, while Huscarl, still present in 1086, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… had 5 a. each, the rest being then ascribed to 16 'free sokemen'. In 1319 the priory's sokemen and villeins were represented by 19 customary …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… at Swaffham Prior and it also then had lordship over six sokemen occupying 2 hides there. It had lost that lordship by … de Scalers had seized the 2 7/8 hides once held by Ely's sokemen, with another yardland formerly supporting six sokemen. 45 Lordship over that manor, held under the bishops …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… that urban development had begun. There were also 8 sokemen on Count Alan's manor. Of the 13 hides on his manor 6 were in demesne and the sokemen apparently held 3, leaving 4 for the villaniand bordars. Nevertheless the sokemen and peasants had 10 ploughteams to the demesne's …