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The list of questions asked of the jurors was recorded in the Inquisitio Eliensis. The contents of Domesday Book and the allied records mentioned above. The primary purpose of the survey was to ascertain and record the fiscal rights of the king. These were mainly: the national land-tax (geldum), paid on a fixed assessment;
The hide was an English unit of land measurement originally intended to represent the amount of land sufficient to support a household. The Anglo-Saxon hide commonly appeared as 120 acres (49 hectares) [a] of arable land, but it probably represented a much smaller holding before 1066.
William Leybourn (1626—1716) was an English mathematician and land surveyor, author, printer and bookseller. [1] A portrait of William Leybourn, from "La Science de l'arpenteur : dans toute son etendue", by Dupain de Montesson
By the 11th century, a market economy was flourishing across much of England, while the eastern and southern towns were heavily involved in international trade. [246] Around 6,000 watermills were built to grind flour, freeing up labour for other more productive agricultural tasks. [247]
At the bottom of the feudal pyramid were the tenants who lived on and worked the land (called the tenants in demesne and also the tenant paravail). In the middle were the lords who had no direct relationship with the King, or with the land in question - referred to as mesne lords. Land was granted in return for various "services" and "incidents".
The first part of the work is an early 11th-century collection of older charters, arranged geographically, with a section on late 10th-century land leases tacked on the end. [1] The historian H. P. R. Finberg gave this section of the work the title Liber Wigorniensis in 1961 to distinguish it from the later section actually assembled by Hemming ...
The Surveys were undertaken with a variety of accuracy. Those where the surveyors were able to copy from an existing register kept by the previous landlord are extremely accurate. However, where a register was not available the surveyors held manor court meetings at which all the manor tenants were supposed to appear to present their land holdings.
Gamel was son of Osbern, a king’s thegn (sometimes referred to in the Normanized form Gamel FitzOsbern) and Gamel was a substantial Yorkshire landowner at the time of the Domesday Survey. [ 1 ] He may have been the unnamed Sheriff who Ealdred (archbishop of York) complained to William about. [ 2 ]