domesday in English

noun
1
a comprehensive record of the extent, value, ownership, and liabilities of land in England, made in 1086 by order of William I.

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1. Barnacle was recorded in the Domesday Book as Bernhangre

2. Domesday was an attractive but deeply flawed concept.

3. References to the Cotters date back to the Domesday Book (1086)

4. Acle is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and in 1253 it was granted a market charter.

5. The Braes family lived in Berkshire where the local Brai is listed in the Domesday Book

6. 30 It has no present claim to fame and its longest guidebook entry are the words in Domesday.

7. This manuscript also contains a Breviate of the Domesday Book, and it was written probably in the Cistercian abbey …

8. Domesday Book and Beyond Frederic William Maitland When we spoke of the relations of mind and brain, we mentioned that such a Corelation …

9. The Domesday Book refers to another half hide being given to the Abbey sometime after 1066 by Edsi the Sheriff.

10. The surname Bluet was first found in Hampshire where Richard Blouet is on the Dives Roll; and Ralph Bloiet was an undertenant in the Domesday Book of 1086

11. Cooling was recorded in the Domesday Book when it was held by Bishop Odo of Bayeux (half-brother of William the Conqueror).

12. The actual construction work was probably overseen by William's half-brother, Robert of Mortain, who owned it by the time of the writing of the Domesday Book.

13. Alton was recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086 as Aoltone.During the Saxon period Alton was known as Aweltun.The Battle of Alton occurred in the town during the English Civil War.

14. The surname Arbon was first found in Surrey where the family trace their lineage back to Abernon listed in the Domesday Book having sprang from the fief of that name in Normandy

15. ‘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 (probably untouched by the town clerk's theft).’

16. Habitational name from a place in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Buschebi, from Old Norse Buskr "bush, shrub" or an Old Norse personal name Buski and býr "homestead, village", or from some other place so called.

17. English: habitational name from a place in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Buschebi, from Old Norse Buskr ‘bush’, ‘shrub’ or an Old Norse personal name Buski + býr ‘homestead’, ‘village’, or from some other place so called

18. Conjecturally, they are descended from Godric, the holder of the King's lands of Great and Little Thurlow at the time of the taking of the Domesday Book in 1086, a census initiated by King William, Duke of Normandy after his conquest of England in 1066

19. Bilbo is a name of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and comes from a family once having lived in Bilbrough, a village near Tadcaster in the county of Yorkshire.The place name appears in the 11th century in the Domesday Book of 1086: "In Bilbrough, Christchurch, 8 carucates of land taxable

20. The surname Balant was first found in Suffolk, in the village and civil parish of Baylham.The village dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 when it was first listed as Beleham and probably meant "homestead or enclosure at a river-bend" from the Old English words "begel" + "ham" or "hamm."

21. The surname Ballone was first found in Suffolk, in the village and civil parish of Baylham.The village dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 when it was first listed as Beleham and probably meant "homestead or enclosure at a river-bend" from the Old English words "begel" + "ham" or "hamm."

22. In the case of Droitwich the evidence points to the fact that Burgherhood has always been closely associated with certain franchises connected with the salt trade; possibly the Domesday burgess of Droitwich was enfranchised with but one franchise, and that a franchise which made him more free than other men in respect of the salt trade.