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"The ___ Book" (Medieval land survey)
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Domesday \Domes"day`\, n. A day of judgment. See Doomsday . [Obs.] Domesday Book , the ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, ...
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n. (obsolete form of doomsday English)
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Dunworthy, I'm calling this the Domesday Book because it's supposed to be a record of life in the Middle Ages, which is what William the Conqueror's survey turned out to be, even though he intended it as a method of making sure he got every pound of gold and tax his tenants owed him.
The Domesday Book didn't list thieves, with the possible exception of the king's censustakers, who sometimes took more than the census, and the cutthroats of the time surely hadn't kept records of whom they had robbed and murdered, the locations marked neatly on a map.
Gilchrist had had to tell her all over again how the Domesday Book worked, as if she were a first-year student.
The Domesday Book in 1086 had reported no more than 15 per cent of the land wooded, and Probability had estimated that lands cleared for fields and settlements would have reduced that to 12 per cent by the thirteen hundreds.
They, or the men who had written the Domesday Book, had underestimated the numbers badly.
She should tell the Domesday Book what she intended to do, but she didn't know what that was.
They thought she was safely in Skendgate, studying the Middle Ages, with the drop clearly located and the Domesday Book already half full of observations about quaint customs and rotation of crops.
He paid a hundred shillings a year to the King of whom he held the land, but the King may not have been his immediate lord: Domesday Book recorded that he could take himself where he wished, which is supposed to mean he could give his allegiance to any lord he chose.
Nor does Ealdgyth appear as queen in accounts of the coronation, or in any of the records of his reign, or in Domesday Book as the holder of any land in his earldom.
The evidence of it is in Domesday Book, which was compiled on William's orders in 1086 to record the ownership and taxable value of the landed estates of England.
He took a very circuitous route, prowling round London like an animal that suspects a trap, and the whole of it can be followed in the Domesday record of destruction.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says it happened at Berkhamstead, but the Domesday evidence points to the village of Little Berkhamstead, which is farther east near Hertford.
She should tell the Domesday Book what she intended to do, but she didn't know what that was.
Perusing the Domesday Book proved to be a far bigger and more irksome task than even Sabat had anticipated.
It had the longest Gothic cathedral in the world, the oldest public school in England and, more amusingly, the Domesday Book had been compiled within its walls - she had her own chapter to write in it.