SOKE

Soke: translation

A lord's jurisdictional right over the district attached to a *manor, with the right to receive fines and other dues; later, this included the exclusive right within a district to mill corn - the mill being built and held by the lord as a means of extra income, esp. after the *plague of 1348. [&LT; OldEngl. socn = right of jurisdiction] -

Cf. Sake and soke; Soken

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