socman

How to use socman in a sentence

• There was also a strong independent body of men called socmen, who were none other than our English yeomen.

  English Villages | P. H. Ditchfield

• This last is divided between free socmen holding on certain conditions, villains and cottagers.

  Villainage in England | Paul Vinogradoff

• We often come across such base customs as the payment of merchet in connexion with the 'villain socmen' of ancient demesne.

  Villainage in England | Paul Vinogradoff

• In order to be quite accurate people spoke of villain socmen or little socage in opposition to free.

  Villainage in England | Paul Vinogradoff

• At the close of the thirteenth century the lawyers distinguish three kinds of men—free, villains, and socmen.

  Villainage in England | Paul Vinogradoff