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hamsocna

hamsocna [AS hamsocn] , ‘ham-soken’, assault of a person in his own home, or house-breaking. b fine therefor. qui ~am faciet intra portum sine licentia et summam infracturam aget ‥ jaceat in ungildan œkere (Quad.) GAS 234; hamsoca Ib. 597 (v. assilire 2a); 1195 in hamsochna vulneravit eum CurR RC I 19; 1198 nequiter et in hamsoka robaverunt ei vj s. Ib. 205; 1201 venerunt manu armata et ‥ fregerunt domos suas †et hamsocham [MS: in hamsoch’] et in felonia robaverunt ei vj m. argenti CurR RC II 50; 1220 intrusit se in terram suam et domum suam ‥ et nequiter et in felonia et in ~a asportavit ij loricas Ib. IX 193; 1238 fecerunt hamsokinam in terram Alexandri ‥ et homines suos ibidem verberaverunt LTR Mem 12 m. 8; 1277 ad hamsokiam ‥ faciendam CourtR Wakefield I 171; 1288 facit ampsokam ad domum Angnetis ‥ unde ‥ Angnes levavit utesium Leet Norw. 3.  b habet rex has forisfacturas, handsocam, gribrige, foristel (Kent) DB I 1; 1157 cum socca et saca ‥ et utfangenethef et ~a infra burgum et extra Act. Hen. II I 134 (cf. ib. I 374: 1163 : hamsocca; ib. II 173: 1182 hansocca); 1189 habeat sacham et socham ‥ et hamesocham et blodwite CalCh II 328; 1199 cum socca et sacca ‥ hamsoca et grithbriche RChart 1b (cf. ib. 38b: 1200 †hamsonca; ib. 70b: 1200 hamsoch’; ib. 154a: 1205 homsaka; ib. 183a: 1208 hamsoga).

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