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Domesday Book encompasses two independent works (originally in two physical volumes): "Little Domesday" (covering Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex), and "Great Domesday" (covering much of the remainder of England – except for lands in the north that later became Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland, and the County Palatine of Durham – and parts of Wales bordering and included within English ...
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.
Torchil [1] de Bovington (or Boynton) was an 11th-century landowner in Norman England. William the Conqueror's Domesday survey of England was taken in 1086, listing both those who had land before the Norman Conquest of 1066 and who held it in 1086. Torchil (or Turchil) is mentioned as a landowner sixty-four times. [2]
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 first Ramsden theodolite as used by Roy. (Destroyed by bomb damage in 1941.) In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745 it was recognised that there was a need for an accurate map of the Scottish Highlands and the necessary survey was initiated in 1747 by Lieutenant-Colonel David Watson, a Deputy Quartermaster-General of the Board of Ordnance.
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 ]
The Bayeux Tapestry depicts William the Conqueror's knights seizing food from English peasants. [1] The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded at least 12% of people as free, 30% as villeins, 35% as servient bordars and cottars, and 9% as slaves. [2] The history of English land law can be traced back to Roman times.
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".