10 Jul Lordship Title of Sokes or Laurence Place ID13345
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In the time of the Confessor twelve sokemen had held Pirot's property, with liberty to sell, and a family called le Sok continued to hold this fraction, probably from Domesday, though evidence of them has not been found before the reign of King John. Thus the charter of confirmation granted by that king to Robert Braybrook mentions the gift of William son of William le Sok of 10 acres of land in Wyboston. The name of Roger le Sok occurs in a fine of 1262, whilst Godfrey le Sok held a fee here in 1302–3, and in 1316 William le Sok. In 1330 the latter, or one of his name, claimed to have exercised view of frankpledge in his manor of Wyboston from time immemorial. In 1338 William le Sok and his sons John and Simon, with many others belonging to Eaton, were accused of interfering with Robert de Redeware in the discharge of his duty of arresting William de Wymyngton. They had killed four horses, valued at £60, and rescued William from the hands of justice. William le Sok's name occurs in 1346, but no further mention has been found of the family, and in 1428 the assessors for an aid declare that it was not then known who held William le Sok's fee. This property reappears in 1617 as 'Sokes Manor,' and was then conveyed by Anthony Garnons and Christina his wife and other members of the family to Edmund Moore. He alienated it in 1619 to Sir Thomas Penruddocke, kt., and others, and between this date and 1641 it became the property of William Howard Viscount Stafford lord of Wyboston Manor (q.v.), with which its history is henceforward identical, separate mention of it occurring in 1796.
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