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▪ I. soke1 Now chiefly Hist.|səʊk| Also 4 sok, 6–7 soake, 7–9 soak. [ad. med.L. soca, ad. OE. sócn soken.] 1. A right of local jurisdiction; = soc 1, soken 3.[a1086Domesday Bk. I. 225 b/2 Gitda tenuit cum saca & soca. Ibid. VI. 275/2 Abbas clamat socam huius ville. 1114–8Laws Hen. I, ix. 11 (Liebermann), Soca..alia pertinet baronibus socam et sacam habentibus.] 1598Stow Surv. 36, I..will and command, that they shall inioy the same well and quietly and honourably with sake and soke [etc.]. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. ii. 12 My [i.e. King Stephen's] Demains with Sake, and Soke, and Toll, and Theam. 1809Bawden tr. Domesday Bk. 460 Half a carucate of land..with sac and soke. 1859C. Barker Associative Principle i. 27 Manorial privileges, such as soke, stallage, or tolls of markets and fairs. 2. A district under a particular jurisdiction; a local division of a minor character.[a1086Domesday Bk. I. 324 Ad hoc manerium pertinet soca haec. 1147–50Reg. de Dunfermelyn (Bann. Cl.) 8 Donauit..eidem capelle decimas dominiorum suorum in soca de Striuelin. 1200Rot. Chart. (1837) 38/1 Do..decem libratis terre in soka nostra de Eyllesham.] αc1350in Eng. Gilds (1870) 350 To don here Offys al-so wel in þe sok as in þe Citee a-fore y-seyd. 1442Rolls of Parlt. V. 58/2 The Maner of Snayth, and the Soke of Snayth, in the Schire of Yorke. 1482Ibid. VI. 200/2 Within the said Cite, the Soke of the same, and the Shere of such or any of them. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 15 Dioceses..ben deuided into seuerall riddinges, wapentakes, and sokes. 1627Speed England xxviii. §7 It [Somersham] is the head of those fiue Townes, of which the Soke is composed. 1679Blount Anc. Tenures 9 Coningsburg in Yorkshire..had twenty eight Towns and hamlets within its soke. 1766Entick London IV. 305 Certain burgesses..gave to the..church..all the lands and soke, called..Knighten Guild. 1799[A. Young] Agric. Lincoln. 231 A difference in the rights between the Soke of Bolingbroke and Holland Town, have hitherto protracted the proceeding. 1833Rep. Comm. Municipal Corporations 333 Is it the practice to charge the Soke of Grantham with the maintenance of prisoners? 1873J. Lewis Census 1871, 174 Lincolnshire..comprises 31 wapentakes, hundreds, liberties and sokes. 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 556/2 The liberty or soke of Peterborough. β1591Fletcher Russe Commw. (Hakl. Soc.) 50 An ordinarie rent of money imposed upon everie soake or hundred within the whole realme. 1613in Scott. Hist. Rev. Oct. (1910) 12 Being about to take a lease of the soake of Horncastle. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4067/2 Your Majesty's ancient Borough and Soak of Doncaster. 3. (See quot. 1788 and soken 2 b.)
1609in Act 5 Geo. III, c. 26 Preamble, Suits, sokes, multures, and also all and singular profits. 1638Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 22 Y⊇ Mills were worth a great deal more if they had had y⊇ same soak, which..they had, but now y⊇ soak is bought and sold. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 354 Soke (vulg. sooac), an exclusive privilege claimed by a mill, for grinding all the corn which is used within the manor or township it stands in. 4. attrib., as soke-fee, soke-land, soke-mill, soke-reeve.
c1290Fleta ii. lv. (1647) 119 Quod fieri potest per Soke⁓reves eorum in hustengo. 1741T. Robinson Gavelkind v. 85 A Man seised of Land in Soke-Fee. 1858Hogg Shelley II. x. 345 The proprietor of a large soke-mill. 1882Elton Orig. Eng. Hist. 192 In some places..there are two kinds of copyhold land, the one called ‘Bond-land’ and the other ‘Soke-land’. 1893Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita II. 46 You send a sack of corn to the soak-mill, and you get back half a sack of flour. ▪ II. † soke2 Obs.—1 = sock n.2 1. The passage is translated from Littleton (ii. v. §119), who says above ‘soca idem est quod caruca, s. vn soke ou vn charue’; cf. the note on socage.
1661J. Stephens Procurations 47 A great part of those Tenants which held of their Lords by Socage, did come with their Sokes (their Ploughs) certain dayes in the year to plough and sow the Demesnes of the Lord. ▪ III. soke obs. form of soak v., suck v. |