"sithcundman" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "See gesithcundman.",
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          "text": "[…]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.",
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          "text": "The Eorls constituted the nobility of the land, and were subdivided into two orders, the Hlafords or land-owners, and the Sithcundmen, who were nobles by birth, but less wealthy than the hlafords. To this class, too, belonged the Thanes, who originally were those to whom land was granted, as a feudal tenure; this title, however, in due time became equivalent to Earl, the King’s thane ranking with the hlafords, and the lesser thane with the sithcundmen.",
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          "text": "These classes are: ceorls, common freemen, with a were of 200 silver shillings, sithcundmen, with a were of 600 shillings, and king’s thegns, with a were of 1,200 shillings.",
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        "The oldest inhabitant of a settlement."
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  "etymology_text": "See gesithcundman.",
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          "text": "[…]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.",
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