Now Hist. [ad. AF. sokemanerie or Anglo-Lat. sokemanria: see prec. and -RY.] The tenure of land by a sokeman; also, the sokemen collectively.
[c. 1290. Britton (1865), II. 11. Sokemaneries sount terres et tenementz, qe ne sount mie tenuz par fee de chevaler, ne par graunt serjaunties, ne par petites, mes par simples services.
a. 1399. in Vinogradoff, Villainage in Eng. (1892), 116, note. Quidam tenentes eiusdem manerii tenent terras et tenementa sua in sokemanria.]
1603. Stow, Surv., vii. 64. What sokeman he will, so he be of the sokemanrie.
1679. Blount, Anc. Tenures, 119. If any of the Sokemanry shall be impleaded.
1766. Blackstone, Comm., II. vi. 100. Britton also, from such their freedom, calls … their tenure sokemanries.
1865. Nichols, Britton, II. 5, note. Burgages and sokemanries are changed for such villenages into free tenure.
1896. M. T. Pearman, Hist. Manor Bensington, Oxon., 38. There were about forty-four sokemanries.
