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Socinians.
A sect founded by Lælius Socinus in 1560, which numbered many adherents in Poland. Their doctrines were similar to those of the modern Unitarians. In 1658 they were proscribed by the Diet of Warsaw, and the sect gradually faded out of existence.
Soft-shell Democrats.
The anti-slavery section of the Democratic party in New York from 1848 to 1854.
Soissons, Constitution of.
The earliest existing French edict. It had reference to the preservation of the public peace, and required the consent of the great feudal lords, who swore to obey it.
Sokmen.
In Saxon times, freemen who owed suit to the Lord’s court, or Sok.