(Bishop of) Ely, Soke

Rent paid yearly at the soke of the Bishop of Ely, 40 H. III. (Anc. Deeds, A. 2224).

The Bishop's House, gardens, etc., are shown in Rocque's map, 1746, outside the City boundary, on the north side of Holborn Hill.

Soke
·noun ·see <<Soc>>. II. Soke ·noun One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, ...

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Soke
Although London has been generally regarded as exempt from feudal tenures, there is abundant evidenc...

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Ely Court
North out of Holborn, between Leather Lane and Hatton Garden, outside the City boundary (Bacon, 1912...

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Ely House
The inn or hostel of the Bishop of Ely in Holborn (S. 388). Granted by John de Kyrkeby, Bishop of E...

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Ely in London
Six messuages and forty acres of land in Ely (in) London, the suburb of London and the parish of St....

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Ely Place, Rents
See Ely House. ...

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Cornhill, Soke of
A piece of land in the soke of the bishop "apud Cornhillam" given by Giraldus de Stratford to the Ca...

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(St.) Winwall, Soke of
Near the church of St. Laurence Jewry, granted to Balliol College, Oxford, 1293 (Price's Guildhall, ...

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(St.) Wyewall, Soke of
Grant by Hugh de Vyenne, Canon of St. Martin's le Grand of the soke of St. Wyewall in parish of St. ...

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