soken

1) Within the manorial system this was a right attached to a mill which required the tenants of certain lands to have the corn they produced ground there, or the cloths they made fulled there.

1522 ‘an estate in fee in all his cornmills and walkemyllnes and all the suit and sukken of the freehold tenants belonging thereto’, Brighouse

1591 I geve unto Ellyn my wife ... my mylne called Dareley mylne with the soken and suite there to belonginge, Winsley

1653 Tolls, Mulctures suite, Soaken, Commons, Ingleton.

dates 1522 1591 1653

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