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Definition of Socmen
1. socman [n] - See also: socman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Socmen
Literary usage of Socmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England: With a Commentary on Magna by Francis Stoughton Sullivan, Gilbert Stuart (1805)
"... the predecessors of the socmen or socage tenants in the feudal monarchy....Villeins
in gross and villeins belonging to the land of-the Lord. ..."
2. Labor and Capital: Containing an Account of the Various Organizations of by Emory Adams Allen (1891)
"Introduction of Feudalism—The Doomsday Survey—The condition of a Villan—His
duties—His relations to the Lord—The Cotters—Slaves—socmen—Free ..."
3. A Topographical History of the County of Leicester: The Ancient Part by John Curtis (1831)
"... there were 3 socmen with a plough.1 In the reign of Henry III. ... 1 servant,
28 socmen, 4 villans and 4 bordars, had 6 ploughs ; there was a mill and ..."
4. The Inquisitiones Post Mortem for the County of Worcester by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John William Willis Bund (1894)
"Walter Brown, another of the said fifteen socmen, does twice as much work ...
other fourteen socmen for the whole year, except for the weeks of Christmas, ..."
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