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Name & Condition. In London, the British Home Office reported that the rural county in England and Wales with the worst record for drunkenness in 1950 was the Soke* of Peterborough...
...younge yet," be smiled. "And so was I, onely, methinks, a few houres gone. In everie pleasure reioycing, I imployed myselfe with all the wilde antickes of the sences. An apless knave, dauncing with the trulls, keping my stomacke better than my soule, I would be a coniurer, soke Veritas in ayre and earth. There was one faire Mayde, vertuous . . . Full many a lass was laid on the lippe. He say no more.--Ho, Miles, the capon. Bringe thy tabor and pipe, troll away, like a foole for Hise Maiestie!" They drank, and talked, and sang. The Vagabond remembers snatches...
Should Lord Burghley's father, the 5th Marquess of Exeter, die, the young Justice of the Peace would take his seat in the House of Lords, inherit estates of 27,000 acres, and become both Hereditary Grand Almoner to His Majesty & Custos Rotulorum of the Soke of Peterborough...
SOCKING, the Eton College term for a treat, synonymous with CHUCK at Westminster and other schools. Believed to be derived from the monkish word SOKE. An old writer speaks of a pious man "who did not SOKE for three days", meaning he fasted...
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