sithcundman

— […]the author has suggested, for the first time, so far as we know, but with great probability, that these sithcundmen, sixhyndmen, or lesser thanes, are the same tenants as in Domesday are denominated sokemen, holding freely of a lord, and bound by the general obligation of the Anglo-Saxon polity to be commended to some lord, but at liberty to shift this dependance from one superior to another, unless the land itself had been received under a feudal grant.