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† port-ˈsoken Old Law. Obs.
[f. port n.2 + soken.]
The jurisdiction of a port or town; hence, spec. the district outside a city or borough, over which its jurisdiction extended. Also attrib.
[a1189Charter of Hen. II to Canterbury in Somner Gavelkind (1660) 135 Infra urbem, & in Portsoka. 1200Rot. Chart. (1837) 45/2 Carta Norhamton. Sciatis nos concessisse burgensibus nostris de Norhamton..quietantiam murdri infra burgem et portsoka.] 1224Hen. III Charter to City of London in Coke Instit. iv. (1648) 252 Quod infra muros civitatis, neque in portesokne nemo capiat hospitium per vim. [a1272Charter of Hen. III in Somner Gavelkind (1660) 135 Nullus de civitate vel Portsoka sua.] 1660Somner Gavelkind 135 Portsoken, being..I take it, the same, which at this day is known there by the name of Portsoken-Ward..but in some ancient Charters of Liberties..you may find it spreading it self to the utmost skirts and liberties of the City without the wals. 1701Manley Cowell's Interpr., Portsokne, the Soke or Liberties of any Port, i.e. City, or Town... Quietantiam murdri infra urbem & in Portsokne, i.e. within the..City, and the Liberties without the Walls. |