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scipsocna

scipsocna [AS scipsocn], English territorial division, ‘ship-soke’ (app. w. ref. to district responsible for providing a ship's company to the navy). ipsi ‥ comitatus in centurias et sipessocna distinguntur (Leg. Hen. 6. 1b) GAS 552; †964 (12c) ut ipse episcopus cum monachis suis de istis tribus ‥ hundredis ‥ constituant unam naucupletionem quod Anglice dicitur scypfylleð oþþe scypsocne in loco quem ‥ Osƿaldeslaƿ ‥ appellari placuit, ubi querelarum cause ‥ discernantur, habeatque ‥ episcopus ‥ omnia quecunque rex in suis hundredis habet CS 1135; 1170 sipesocha de Cnichtelawa ‥ sipesocha de Chinton Pipe 90; 1170 sipe socha de Humeliford Ib. 91; 1175 de sibbesoka de Humilford Ib. 94; 1177 vij s. et iiij d. de Brinkelawahundredo pro j murdro. et l s. de sibsocha de Humeliford' pro ij murdris Ib. 28; 1179 vicecomes redd' comp' de l s. de sibbesocha et Humiliford hundredo pro iij murdris Ib. 112.

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