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