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A pre-Conquest church, St Saviour's was among those mentioned in the Domesday Survey or in other contemporary documents.
A church of this name is mentioned in Domesday in a way that implies pre-Conquest existence.
It appears that the burgesses as a group were responsible for payment of the Domesday custom and for later tallages and aids.
The circuit returns were then sent to the Exchequer in Winchester where they were summarized, edited and compiled into Great Domesday Book.
Compiling Domesday Book was a huge endeavour, which entered the folk memory because almost everyone was involved.
In 1272 the town clerk, avoiding imminent charges for dereliction of duty, made off with the original Domesday and other borough records.
Thanks to the patient detective work of some great medievalists, we know a lot about the Domesday Book.
Other candidates include the ship burial at Sutton Hoo, the Lindisfarne Gospels, Magna Carta, the Domesday Book and the Isle of Lewis chessmen.
There is little information in Domesday Book on peasant production but a good deal on demesne inputs and output.
In 1068 the Domesday Book recorded a population of 650 people, including 28 slaves, 45 smallholders and 23 swineherds.
The class of small thegns had broadened into a rural squirearchy, and Domesday Book shows that in 1066 England contained hundreds of manorial lords.
It is likely that the original account was written as an introduction or appendix to the custumal in the Domesday and also to the list of gild ordinances.
Fisherton Mill was a corn mill since the time of the Domesday Book, working until 1965, and the corn exchange was where the city's library is today.
Little Domesday is a less magnificent affair, scrawled over about 900 pages of parchment by a variety of scribes, and peppered with corrections, deletions and insertions.
Economy Since Maldon's residents owned very little agricultural land at the time of Domesday, it does not seem that most townsmen earned a living from farming.
Little Domesday survives because the East Anglian material had not yet been incorporated when William died and all further work on the project was abandoned.
When the Domesday Book was compiled, Chichester consisted of 300 dwellings which held a population of 1,500 people.
In the Domesday Book the Lord of the Manor was the Abbot of Westminster Abbey.
Its customs were described in a separate section of the Domesday Book account of Herefordshire.
In King's Caple, the only part of Archenfield east of the Wye, Domesday lists the inhabitants as one Frenchman and five Welshmen.
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Examples from Classical Literature
From domesday we can learn the names of the Saxon freemen who were allowed to keep their lands.
The canons of the house are mentioned amongst the tenants in chief in domesday.
I refer to the domesday Book, or survey of the country which William caused to be made.
Farther up the street is the church of St. Stephen, mentioned in domesday.
It was not even mentioned in domesday Book, near as it was to Winchester.
The term in domesday Book for the pilot of a ship or steersman.
It was already a borough when the domesday Book was being compiled.
The dome on the new court-house is expected to be completed by domesday.
At the time of the domesday survey the king owned the manor.
In Domesday it is spelt 'Flaneburg,' and flane is the Norse for an arrow or sword.
Bexley, which is mentioned in Domesday Book, has had a church since the 9th century.
But, it will be seen, the 'tenuit' of Domesday is equated by the 'emit' of the exon book.
Even at the date of Domesday Book the abbey held no less than thirty manors.
In the first place, the substance of Domesday Book will have been rearranged.
In Domesday Book the feudal or tenurial principle seems still struggling for recognition.
The terms of the tenure are but very rarely described, for Domesday Book is no feodary.
As mentioned in the Domesday Book, it was held by the powerful De Lacy family and was the hub of parish and commercial activity long before the main town of Huddersfield.
I contend that it was Domesday Book, and can have been nothing else.
Far other is the normal, if not invariable, usage of Domesday Book.
They are not able to trace back their titles to a Domesday Book.
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