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 DOMESDAY SURVEY 1086 or in Anglo-Saxon times. The fact that in our county we have a list of some twenty-one people only who are mentioned as exercising jurisdictional privileges l which might be advanced in this connexion is not altogether to the point ; the franchises specified in the list are of a high order, and rights of simple jurisdiction might be enjoyed by many persons who did not possess the full set of privileges set forth in the list. But in view of what we learn from other counties, for Derbyshire sources throw no light on this matter, it is clear that the power of jurisdiction was no inseparable part of the lord's rights over his sokeland, which included labour services and the payment of customary dues, and a number of vague rights comprised under the Domesday formula of ' commendation.' * In some parts of the country the Domesday sokes have maintained their individual existence up to the present time ; it fortunately happens that we can trace back one Derbyshire soke for over sixty years before the Conquest. In the above-mentioned list of franchises it is stated that Walter de Aincurt exercised soc and sac over Morton. Now in the will of Wulfric ' Spot ' we read of ' Mortune and eal seo socna the thaerto hereth.' 3 In this case ' socna ' has a territorial signification, for the will goes on to recite the places which were included within the ' soke ' of Morton. 4 One of these was Ogston, ' Oggodestun,' which Domesday describes in the same entry as Morton itself. We are so much in the dark as to the growth of private jurisdiction in the Danelaw that this instance of the continuity of jurisdictional rights recorded in Domesday is doubly welcome. We may note here that there is one instance 6 in Derbyshire of the difficult word ' thegnland,' which in Domesday seems to be usually contrasted with ' sokeland.' It is so contrasted in the present case, but we have no further details. Its meaning in Cambridgeshire has been discussed by Mr. Round in the light of the Inquisitio Eliensis, and he has shown it to be applied in that county to land which the owner could not alienate without the consent of his lord. 6 Whether it bears the same meaning in Derbyshire, in the absence of details it is difficult to say, but there seems no reason to doubt that it does. Of course the last two of the above manorial types might, and frequently in practice did, overlap ; a manor might well contain both ' sokeland ' and ' berewicks.' Thus Newbold, the first manor entered in the County Survey, contained six ' berewicks ' and also ' sokeland,' which is made the subject of eight distinct entries. 7 But the above classification may help us to realise the variety of the tenurial rights which are repre- sented by the Domesday ' manerium,' 8 and the impossibility of finding an exact definition to cover all these various forms of local organisation. 1 pp. 328-329. * Don. Bk. and Beyond. 8 Kemble, Codex Diplomatics, 1280. The phrase is repeated in the charter of Ethelred II. to the monastery, printed in the Man. iii. 3940. 6 In Hatune, ' Hatton vi bov. terras de soca & i bov. & dim. de Tainland.' This entry is added at the foot of folio 27^0. 6 feud. Eng. 28-9. 7 See the opening of the Domesday text. 8 Great stress is laid on this point by Prof. Vinogradoff in Tte Growth of the Manor. 1 313 40
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