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Domesday Book
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Domesday Book, ‘the Book of the day of assessment’, is the name applied since the 12th cent. to the record of the great inquest or survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror in 1086. It contains a record of the ownership, area, and value of lands, and of the numbers of tenants, livestock, etc.
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Domesday Book put on disc for first time in Yorkshire project
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 2/2/2008; 622 words
; ...Research Council. The Domesday Book actually consists of two separate books: Little Domesday, which covers...Tees. The new Domesday Explorer project...first time both books have been put onto...The original book contains 800 3ft...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Domesday Book can now be explored online.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 8/5/2006; 700+ words
; ...nation's finest treasure" - the Domesday Book - online. The original document is...produce the entries. The Domesday Book is at www.nationalarchives.go-v.uk/domesday Some of the Domesday destinations that exist today in the...
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Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Domesday Book and the Law: Society and...of 108e and the enormous Domesday Book that it produced have...important themes in Fleming's book is the relationship between...inquest and the survey -- Domesday Book -- that it produced...
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Domesday Book goes online as dream is fulfilled
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 8/5/2006; 585 words
; ...finest treasure" - the Domesday Book - can now be explored...subjects. Visitors to the Domesday website will be able...warm to the Domesday Book and its specific contents...nationalarchives.gov.uk/ domesday n The survey was conducted...
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 "News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL)")
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Domesday Book goes online
Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL); 8/8/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the associated press The Domesday Book details the landholdings...remain anonymous. The book consists of two parchment volumes - Little Domesday, which covers part of eastern England, and Great Domesday, which includes much of...
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Domesday Book, historic survey, goes online
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 8/5/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Internet age Friday when the Domesday Book, a survey of England...said Adrian Ailes, a Domesday expert at the National...were not included. The book's name is thought to...respondents had heard of the Domesday Book, 13 per cent thought...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The Domesday Book - Pages from the past.(Domesday Book put on display in Britain)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/29/2000; 700+ words
; ...itself. The finished version of the book, Great Domesday, runs to two volumes, and Little Domesday, more a set of working notes, to...keeping is the need to save space. Books such as Domesday take up a lot of room and in the later...
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Domesday Book: It's the king's land, OK?(William the Conqueror's vast survey of land ownership and use throughout England in 1086)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/25/1999; 700+ words
; ...interpretation, it is notable that Domesday emphasises the feudal countryside...taken place since the conquest. Domesday Book records that barely 5% of land...hands of 170-odd Norman barons. Domesday Book both legitimated these land...
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The Domesday Book goes digital.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Information Management Journal; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The 920-year-old Domesday Book has entered the 21st century. According...housed. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Domesday Book is the oldest public record at...pounds sterling]. But because the Domesday Book can still be used in British...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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New Domesday Book ready by 2012.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 8/22/2005; 700+ words
; ...the original was written, a new Domesday Book is being compiled. The Government...William the Taxman:The Domesday Book was commissioned in December...Public Record Office in London; The Domesday Book provides historians with an...
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Domesday Book
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Domesday Book was the result of the great survey commissioned...The main manuscript, so-called Great Domesday, written by a single scribe, contains...These three counties make up Little Domesday, a more detailed, unedited draft text...
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Domesday
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
Domesday survey of the lands of England made in 1086 by order of William the Conqueror. XII ( domesdei ). ME. form of DOOMSDAY , popular appellation given to the book as being a final and inexorable authority.
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Doomsday Book
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Doomsday Book see Domesday Book .
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William I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...was taken, the results of which were embodied in the Domesday Book . By the Oath of Salisbury in 1086, William established...1964), and D. Walker (1968); F. M. Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond (1897, repr. 1966); F. Barlow, William...
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tenants‐in‐chief
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...lands directly from the king. Their names are given in Domesday Book (1086) and are mainly those who had fought alongside William at Hastings or their descendants. Domesday records some 1,400 of them. They were under obligation...
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