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The Domesday Book (eɪ or eɪ; Latin: Liber de Wintonia `Book from Winchester`) is a manuscript record of the `Great Survey` of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states: While spending the Christmas time of 1085 in Gloucester, William had deep speech with his ...
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the original record or summary of William I`s survey of England. By contemporaries the whole operation was known as `the description of England,` but ... [5 related articles]
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Record of the survey of England carried out in 1086 by officials of
William the Conqueror in order to assess land tax and other dues, find out the value of the crown lands, and enable the king to...
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An account made by the Normans of all the lands they considered profitable in England. It was made to show what land there was, who owned it and the taxes paid from that paid to the monarch. It took several years to write. It does not cover Northumberland and Durham, as well as some of Yorkshire, since the Harrying of the North after a northern re...
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strictly speaking, only the EXCHEQUER DOMESDAY OR GREAT DOMESDAY, but this is often termed Volume I, LITTLE DOMESDAY being Volume II; the final product of the DOMESDAY INQUEST.
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The Domesday Book is a record of the survey conducted in England in 1086 by officials of William The Conqueror so as to assess taxes etc. The Domesday Book contains a survey of almost all the lands in England. The survey was made by commissioners, who collected the information in each district from a sworn jury consisting of sheriffs, lords of mano...
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[
n] - record of a British land survey ordered by William the Conqueror
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Doomsday Book noun record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror
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Click images to enlargeRecord of the survey of England carried out in 1086 by officials of William the Conqueror in order to assess land tax and other dues, find out the value of the crown lands, and enable the king to estimate the power of his vassal barons. The name is derived from the belief that its judgement was as f...
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a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
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