Domesday Book: A Popular Account of the Exchequer Manuscript So Called, with Notices of the Principal Points of General Interest which it ContainsSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1887 - 328 pages |
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Abbey of St abbot acres ancient Anglo-Saxon Chronicle archbishop belonging bishop bordarii British Museum burgesses Canon Canterbury carucate Castle century charter chief tenants Church Cloth boards Commissioners contains Cottonian countess counties Devonshire Domesday Book Domesday Survey Dorsetshire earl earl of Mercia Edward the Confessor Ellis England entries Essex Exchequer Domesday Book Exon Exon Domesday filius folio geld Hants Harold held land Hereford Hertfordshire hide homines houses hundred Ibid Ingulph Inquest Inquisitio Inquisitio Eliensis Kent King Edward King William king's Linc Lincoln Lincolnshire lord manors manuscript mentioned monasteries Norf Norfolk Norman notice occurs Oxfordshire perhaps plough possessed Post 8vo presbyters probably quæ regis royal Saxon servi sheriff shire sochemanni Somers Somersetshire Suff Suffolk Sussex tenant in capite tenants-in-chief term Terra Terræ thegns tion town undertenants villani volume Waltheof Warwick William the Conqueror Wilts Wiltshire Winchester Worcester word Yorks Yorkshire
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Page 169 - Temple speaks (/), a sort of people in a condition of downright servitude, used and employed in the most servile works, and belonging, both they, their children and effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it.
Page 328 - Lights." 12mo Cloth boards 1 6 Being of God, Six Addresses on the. By CJ ELLICOTT, DD, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Small post 8vo Clothboards 1 6 Bible Places; or, The Topography of the Holy Land.
Page 24 - The commissioners appointed to make the survey were to inquire the name of each place ; who held it in the time of King Edward the Confessor ; the present possessor ; how many hides were in the manor ; how many ploughs were in...
Page 24 - Confessor ; the present value ; and how much each free man or soc-man had, and whether any advance could be made in the value. Thus could be ascertained who held the estate in the time of King Edward; who then held it ; its value in the time of...
Page 75 - So very narrowly he caused it to be " traced out, that there was not a single hide, nor one virgate of land, nor even, " it is shame to tell. though it seemed to him no shame to do, an ox, nor a cow, " nor a swine was left, that was not set down.
Page 3 - An opinion which spread with rapidity over Europe about the close of the tenth and beginning of the eleventh century, and which gained universal credit, wonderfully augmented the number of credulous pilgrims, and increased the ardour with which they undertook this useless voyage.
Page 75 - I may narrate somewhat prolixly — what or how much each man had, who was a holder of land in England, in land or in cattle, and how much money it might be worth...
Page 77 - Those, for the midland counties at least, if not for all the districts, were Remigius, bishop of Lincoln, Walter Giffard, earl of Buckingham, Henry de Ferrers, and Adam, the brother of Eudo Dapifer, who probably associated with them some principal person in each shire.
Page 74 - Then at midwinter the king was at Gloucester with his Witan, and there held his court five days; and afterwards the archbishop and clergy had a synod three days. . . . 'After this the king had a great council, and very deep speech with his Witan about this land, how it was peopled, or by what men; then sent...
Page 74 - about this laud how it was peopled, or by what men ; then sent his men over all England, into every shire, and caused to be ascertained how many hundred hides were in the shire, or what land the King himself had, and cattle within the land, or what dues he ought to have, in twelve months from the shire.