1736 Canting Dictionary / S / SOCKET Money [money]
demanded and spent upon Marriage.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Socket Money in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).