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socager Now Hist.|ˈsɒkɪdʒə(r)|
Also 7– soccager, 8 sockager.
[f. prec.]
One holding land by socage tenure.
1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxx. (1739) 187 Of these Socagers did arise..the body of English Footmen in their Armies. 1653Customes of Soke of Kirton-in-Lindsey, Linc. (MS.), Upon paine of every forreyner so intruding ten pounds, and every Soccager Five pounds. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Soc, Liberty of holding a Court of his Sock⁓men or Sockagers, that is, his Tenants, whose Tenure is hence called Socage. 1812G. Chalmers Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit. 4 The barons, the free tenants, the free soccagers, together with the villains, and the slaves. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. vii. 193 He was easily tempted to become a socager, paying rent or gavel, instead of a free..man-at-arms. |