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Definition of Sokens
1. soken [n] - See also: soken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sokens
Literary usage of Sokens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The People's History of Essex: Comprising a Narrative of Public and by Duffield William Coller (1861)
"... This Hundred contains the following 28 parishes, irrespective of tie sokens,
which form a peculiar jurisdiction :— * Tlie valne. t ..."
2. Lectures on Early English History by William Stubbs (1906)
"Here, you see, the city is certainly divided into certain sokens or privileged
... You will, however, observe that although these sokens represent the later ..."
3. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1810)
"... within the sokens, which wills are kept in the church of Thor|>e. The Lord of
the sokens. hath also this peculiar privilege, ..."
4. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"These private sokens gradually gave way before the increasing power of the
citizens ; but while they existed, the inclusion of an aristocratic element ..."
5. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Philip Arthur Ashworth (1905)
"These private sokens gradually gave way before the increasing power of the
citizens ; but while they existed, the inclusion of an aristocratic element ..."
6. The Governance of London: Studies on the Place Occupied by London in English by George Laurence Gomme (1907)
"... tendency somewhat unduly to minimise the measure of municipal administrative
unity in the twelfth century ' shire' of London—the London of the sokens—in ..."
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