In Anglo-Saxon England, this was an amount of land considered sufficient to support a single peasant family.
A freeborn peasant who had to work for the lord. They were not slaves, but could not leave the lord's lands and might have to fight for him in a war.
This means that William wanted to know everything in that people owned in England in the smallest detail.
In Anglo-Saxon England, this was the equivalent of a present-day county.
A small piece of land under 1 meter.
Written in the Doomsday book.
An area of water where fish are caught so they can be sold.
Any resource that can be used by the landowner on his land, for example woodlands, orchards, ponds or lakes, mills, bakeries, farm buildings and the manor house itself.
Asking men to find out information.
Money that has to be paid.
Who owned the land.
Was given this land by King Edward.
So very narrowly, indeed
Set down in his writ.
Commissioning them to find out
Ox
Plough
Swine
How the land was occupied
Dues
Yard of land.
Fishery
Demesne
Archbishop, Abbots, Diocesan Bishops.
Hide
Shire
Held it in alod from King Edward.
Villeins
