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	Domesday Book - LoveToKnow 1911
		For the making of the survey each county was visited by a group of royal officers (legati), who held a public inquiry, probably in the great assembly known as the county court, which was attended by representatives of every township as well as of the local lords.
		The Domesday survey therefore recorded the names of the new holders of lands and the assessments on which their tax was to be paid.
		As Domesday normally records only the Christian name of an under-tenant, it is vain to seek for the surnames of families claiming a Norman origin; but much has been and is still being done to identify the under-tenants, the great bulk of whom bear foreign names.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Domesday_Book (1468 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Economy of England at the Time of the Norman Conquest
		Although the Survey records 112 boroughs, agriculture was the predominant economic activity, with stock rearing of greater importance in the south-west and arable farming more important in the east and midlands.
		The Domesday Survey was commissioned on Christmas day, 1085, and it is generally thought that work on summarizing the Survey was terminated with the death of William in September 1087.
		The Domesday tax assessments relate to a non-feudal tax, the geld, thought to be levied annually by the end of William’s reign.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/mcdonald.domesday (2722 words)

	Domesday Witham - Introduction and Method
		The Domesday Book was a record of the survey of England carried out in 1086 by William the Conqueror in order to assess taxes and find out other details of the country he conquered 20 years earlier.
		One of the most important points to understand about the Domesday Survey is that it was prepared in 1086, in order to compare that year with 1066, the year of the Norman invasion.
		Their survey of 1185 describes Witham and Cressing together as being a manor of 5 hides, and Witham alone was assessed at 5 hides in 1066.
	www.gyford.com /domesday (2077 words)

	History Magazine
		Also, Domesday terms and standards were not consistent from county circuit to county circuit; for example, the term wapentake was the equivalent to the hundred in the Danelaw counties.
		Many scholars speculate the surveys were to be condensed with the removal of livestock and population details and made into a single volume.
		David Hume, philosopher and author of History of England, wrote of Domesday that it "is the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation." The detail of Domesday was not surpassed until the introduction of censuses in the early 19th century.
	www.history-magazine.com /domesday.html (3233 words)

	Domesday Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror.
		From the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it is known that the planning for the survey was conducted in 1085, and from the colophon of the book it is known that the survey was completed in 1086.
		The Exon Domesday — for the south-western counties
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Domesday (2006 words)

	Domesday Book
		Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was the record of the great survey of England completed in 1086, executed for William the Conqueror, that was like a census by the government today.
		One of the main purposes of the survey was to find out who owned what so they could be taxed on it, and the judgment of the assessors was final -- whatever the book said about who owned the property, or what it was worth, was the law, and there was no appeal from it.
		The other, Great Domesday covers the rest of England, except for lands in the north that would later become Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland and County Durham (partly because some of these lands were under Scottish control at the time).
	www.dymock.org /Domesday_Book.htm (1638 words)

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		Domesday Book has well been called a rate book, and the task of spelling out a land law from the particulars that it states is not unlike the task that would lie before any one who endeavoured to construct our modern law of real property out of rate books, income tax returns and similar materials.
		Connecting this with the main object of the whole survey, we shall probably be brought to the guess that between the sokeman and the villein there is some broad distinction which concerns the king as the recipient of geld.
		In the survey of the eastern counties he is separated from the liberi homines by the whole class of sochemanni.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/maitland/domesday (15196 words)

	Domesday Book - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Domesday Book, record of a general census of England made (1085-86) by order of William I (William the Conqueror).
		The survey ascertained the economic resources of most of the country for purposes of more accurate taxation.
		For the thoroughness and speed with which it was taken, the Domesday survey as an administrative measure is unsurpassed in medieval history.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-domesday.html (402 words)

	Domesday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thus the Domesday Survey was implemented, not merely as a land survey but as an assessment of the total wealth of the country on which taxes might be levied.
		The purpose of the survey was to assess the taxation potential of the country and discover how far its potential was being met, and to set down in writing the tenure of each manorial holding throughout his domain.
		In the Domesday Survey, Barlborough (Barleburg) and Whitwell (Witewell) are recorded in a single entry as manor and berewick (subsidiary manor), held by Ralph Fitzhubert as tenant-in-chief and Robert (Robert de Meignell) as sub-tenant.
	www.wlhg.co.uk /book/part2.htm (1259 words)

	Domesday
		Domesday (Dooms-day, Judgment Day) received its name in the 12th century, for it was regarded as the ultimate authority, the last word on matters of property.
		Domesday is a most remarkable and valuable record, created in 1085-1086 by order of William ("the Conqueror"), so that he might fully know and understand the nation he ruled over.
		The Latin used in Domesday is almost indecipherable to all but Domesday scholars, as the scribes, to save space, adopted an extreme Latin shorthand.
	www.octavia.net /travelkit/Domesday.htm (541 words)

	Read about the history of the Domesday Book @ Y2U.co.uk
		As Domesday Book normally records only the Christian name of an under-tenant, it is not possible to search for the surnames of families claiming a Norman origin; but much has been done, and is still being done, to identify the under-tenants, the great bulk of whom bear foreign Christian names.
		The ancient Domesday chest, in which it used to be kept, is also preserved in the building at Kew.
		The Exon Domesday - for the south-western counties
	y2u.co.uk /Knowledge_Information/RN_History_Domesday_Book.htm (1797 words)

	The Domesday Book Online - Frequently Asked Questions
		The Domesday Book is a great land survey from 1086, commissioned by William the Conqueror to assess the extent of the land and resources being owned in England at the time, and the extent of the taxes he could raise.
		The survey also served as a gauge of the country's economic and social state in the aftermath of the Conquest and the unrest that followed it.
		The Domesday survey covered all of England as it existed in 1086, which included a small part of what is now Wales, some of Cumbria, but excluded the present day Northumbria.
	www.domesdaybook.co.uk /faqs.html (1478 words)

	Domesday Book
		The Domesday survey is a listing of all the lands held by the king, his ecclesiastical tenants in chief, barons and even fairly humble landowners.
		The first volume surveys all the English shires apart from the northern counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, Northumberland and Durham, and the East Anglian counties of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.
		The function of the Domesday survey could be seen as the compilation of a data bank for the various taxes, charges and services that the king could make on his feudal tenants.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /word/domesday.htm (754 words)

	Domesday Book \| Discover Domesday
		It is a highly detailed survey and valuation of all the land held by the King and his chief tenants, along with all the resources that went with the land in late 11th century England.
		The survey was a massive enterprise, and the record of that survey, Domesday Book, was a remarkable achievement.
		It was also in the interests of his chief barons to co-operate in the survey since it set on permanent record the tenurial gains they had made since 1066.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /domesday/discover-domesday (607 words)

	Angmering History - Domesday
		The Domesday Survey of 1085-86 was drawn up on the orders of King William I. It describes, in remarkable detail, the landholdings and resources of late 11th century England, demonstrating the power of the government machine in the first century of the new Millennium and its deep thirst for information.
		This being the case, it is strange that Bargeham does not appear in the Domesday Survey of 1085/6.
		Finally, the Domesday entries for villages bordering the River Arun all gave details of their fisheries but Bercheham did not and would not have done if it was Bargeham located on a hill some miles from the river.
	www.angmeringvillage.co.uk /history/domesday.htm (749 words)

	Domesday
		As a result of William's death, the Domesday Survey was never fully compiled and we have the survey in two parts.
		Great Domesday covers all England except for East Anglia, London, Winchester, Northumberland, Durham, Westmoreland, Lancashire (though parts of the last three are covered by being included in other shires) and Cumberland, which was disputed land nominally under the rule of the King of Scots.
		Little Domesday, in all likelihood, gives us an idea of the original returns that William's men sent to Winchester where it is thought Samson, the king's clerk, later to be Bishop of Worcester, oversaw the work of compiling the returns into one volume.
	members.tripod.com /GeoffBoxell/domesday.htm (2980 words)

	Tolson Museum Booklets - Climate, Vegetation and Man in the Huddersfield District - Chapter 11. Vegetation in 1086. ...
		BY T.W. It is not until the time of the Domesday Survey, in 1086, that we get historical records which help us to say with some certainty what the vegetation was like.
		At this time the summit plateau was covered with cottongrass peat moss or morass, the higher scree-covered slopes were clothed with Birch-Oak Forest; while on the lower, naturally drained spurs, dipping gently to the north-east, Angles and Danes – and later the Norse – had settled and cultivated the land.
		This gives us a good idea of the extent of human interference by this time, and the changes that would be effected by destruction of the primary vegetation by cultivation in the "ploughlands," and in the woodland ground flora due to grazing and manuring by domesticated animals.
	www.huddersfield1.co.uk /huddersfield/tolson/climate/domesday.htm (271 words)

	Domesday Survey
		Historians have debated the purpose of this "Domesday" survey, some seeing it as primarily a tax assessment, others emphasizing its importance as a basis for assignment of feudal rights and duties.
		It was incomplete, for the far north of England, London, and Winchester were not included, while the returns for Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk were not condensed into the same form as was used for the rest of the country.
		In 1088, Earl William was made Earl of Surrey, a title which carried with it numerous other lands and possessions which are not recorded in the Domesday Survey as belonging to the Earl Warenne.
	www.conisbroughcastle.org.uk /History/domesdaysurvey.htm (255 words)

	Domesday Survey: Introduction V \| British History Online
		The two vast manors of Hayes (3) and Harrow (4, 5) made up the Archbishop of Canterbury's Domesday estate, which, with the exception of the combined fief of the Bishop of London and the Canons of St. Paul's, was the largest of the Middlesex fiefs.
		For a period prior to 1066 the estate appears to have been taken away from the archbishop and in Domesday it is entered as Earl Leofwine's in 1066, but by 1086 it had been restored to the church.
		It is clear from Domesday that the endowments of the see were divided between the bishop and the cathedral chapter by 1086.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22107 (13583 words)

	Domesday Survey: Introduction III \| British History Online
		The social classes mentioned in the Middlesex Survey are francigene, Anglici, milites, villani, bordarii, cotarii, and servi.
		But the vagueness that baffles the modern enquirer is itself a significant fact, for it reflects a society on which historical forces had been playing for many generations to the blurring of class distinctions and the confusion of personal relationships.' (fn.
		The Middlesex Survey is notable for the information it records concerning the size of the peasant holdings.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22105 (2756 words)

	The National Archives \| DocumentsOnline \| Domesday
		Some place names are found only in Domesday Book: some places are no longer inhabited and survive as the name of a natural feature or the place name may have been recorded in a corrupt form.
		Domesday Book is not a census of the population; the names that do appear in it are only of land-holders.
		As it was primarily a land/taxation survey you are unlikely to uncover family names.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /documentsonline/domesday.asp (1175 words)

	Family Ancestry Domesday Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Domesday Book is a survey of England that was conducted by William I the Conquer.
		The first volume is called the Great Domesday, and it is the last record to be collected on every county in England except Suffolk, Norfolk, and Essex.
		While the Domesday Book covers a large number of towns and provinces, none of the documents related to London or Winchester are in existence today.
	www.family-ancestry.co.uk /history/doomsday/domesday_book (602 words)

	The Domesday (Doomsday) Book
		William needed to raise taxes to pay for his army and so a survey was set in motion to assess the wealth and and assets of his subjects throughout the land.
		This survey was also needed to asses the state of the country's economy in the aftermath of the Conquest and the unrest that followed it.
		For these three counties the full, unabbreviated return sent in to Winchester by the commissioners is preserved in the second volume (Little Domesday), which, for some reason, was never summarized and added to the larger volume.
	www.historic-uk.com /HistoryUK/England-History/DomesdayBook.htm (525 words)

	The Domesday Book Online - Home
		The Domesday Book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066.
		The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time).
		The original Domesday Book has survived over 900 years of English history and is currently housed in a specially made chest at London's Public Record Office in Kew, London.
	www.domesdaybook.co.uk (178 words)

	Norman
		The Domesday survey, 20 years after the conquest shows no collapse in the local economy and that in Chobham a Saxon remained the major landowner.
		In 1086 a national taxation survey known as the Domesday Book was made at the order of William the Conqueror.
		Domesday starts by giving us the history and a summary of the tax that can be collected.
	www.chobham.org.uk /domesday.htm (1239 words)

	Public records: Domesday Book
		It is the record of a survey which, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, William the Conqueror ordered to be taken at Christmas 1085; a survey so thorough that not 'one ox nor one cow nor one pig' was omitted.
		Detailed though the Domesday records are, it must be said that it is very difficult, in most cases, to trace a descent from a Domesday tenant.
		The principal sources are Domesday Book itself and the associated documents, the pipe rolls, local surveys and the Cartae Baronum of 1166 (see feudal surveys), and nearly 60 collections of charters.
	www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk /guide/dom.shtml (2315 words)

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