SAKE AND SOKE 79 



and the third penny of the pleas of Warwickshire was annexed 

 to Earl Edwin's manor of Cotes. 1 But the King often granted 

 his share of the pleas of the hundreds to a subject, and hence 

 Swegen of Essex received 25^. of the pleas of the half-hundred 

 of Clavering, 2 and loos, of the pleas of the hundred of 

 Rochford. 3 The pleas of the shire- and hundred-moots of 

 Worcestershire produced ^33, 4 and the same pleas for 

 Cheshire were let on lease for ^50 and a mark of gold. 5 



We have noticed that the pleas of a hundred could be 

 annexed to a manor, and when we read, " The sake and soke 

 of the hundred of Greenhow pertain to Weston, a royal manor, 

 whoever holds there (i.e. in the hundred), and is held by the 

 King and earl," 6 we naturally connect the sake and soke of a 

 hundred with the pleas of the hundred. Again, when we 

 read, " T. R. E. Stigand had the sake and soke of the half- 

 hundred of Hersham, except Thorp and Pulham," 7 we are 

 reminded that the pleas of the half-hundred of Clavering had 

 been granted to Swegen, and infer a grant of the pleas of the 

 half-hundred of Hersham to Stigand. And this connection 

 between sake and soke and forfeitures is supported by a 

 reference to the manor of Wye, in Kent, which belonged to 

 the Abbot of Battle : " To this manor pertain the sake and soke 

 of twenty-two hundreds, and all the forfeitures which justly 

 belong to the King." 8 When King William paid his first visit 

 to St. Edmund's Bury, he gave to the monks Gurth's manor of 

 Brook, and sake and soke over all Gurth's freemen ; 9 so that 

 a grant of sake and soke could operate over a district or over 

 certain persons. 



This association of sake and soke with the profits of juris- 

 diction is supported by the record relating to Southwark 



" The men of Southwark testify . . . that if any man in the act 

 of committing an offence was there accused, he made amends to the 



1 D. B., I. 238 a 2. 2 Id., II. 46 b. 3 Id., II. 45- 



4 Id., I. 172 a i. 5 Id., I. 262 b 2. Id., II. 113 b. 



7 Id., II. 119 b. 8 Id., I. ii b 2. 9 Id., II. 210. 



