This means that William wanted to know everything in that people owned in England in the smallest detail.
Who owned the land.
Was given this land by King Edward.
Money that has to be paid.
A small piece of land under 1 meter.
In Anglo-Saxon England, this was an amount of land considered sufficient to support a single peasant family.
Written in the Doomsday book.
An area of water where fish are caught so they can be sold.
Asking men to find out information.
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.
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.
In Anglo-Saxon England, this was the equivalent of a present-day county.
Set down in his writ.
Swine
Dues
How the land was occupied
Plough
Shire
Demesne
Hide
Held it in alod from King Edward.
Commissioning them to find out
Archbishop, Abbots, Diocesan Bishops.
Ox
Villeins
Yard of land.
So very narrowly, indeed
Fishery
