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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 17 CHAPTER III. NORMAN TIMES. ?DOMESDAY. The Norman Survey of England, as embodied in the Domesday Book, is the first record relating to the hundred or wapentake of Salford, which hundred ineludes in its soil the manor and the greater part of the barony of Manehester. The Dom-boc ineludes some particulars as to the hundred in the time of King Edward the Confessor, who reigned from A.d. 1041 to the th January 1066; as well as the state of the hundred at the time of the Norman Survey, 1080-1086; and it may be well to explain the circumstanees under which this great survey and valuation of the lands of England was made. The Saxon Chronicle tells us that After the Synod, held in London in A.d. 1075, the king William I.] held a large meeting and very deep consultation with the couneil, about this land; how it was occupied, and bv what sort of men. Then sent he his men over all England into each shire; commissioning them to find out ? How many hundreds of hides were in the shire, what lands the king himself had, and what stock upon the land; or what dues he ought to have by the year from the shire. Also they were to record in writing how much land his archbishops had, and his diocesan bishops, and his abbots, and his earls; what or how each man had, who was an occupier in England, cither in land or stock, and how much money it was worth. So very narrowly, indeed, did he commission them to trace it out, that there was not one single hide, nor a yard of land; nay, moreover, ? (it is shameful to tell, though he thought it no shame to do it) ? not even an ox, nor a cow, nor a swine, was there left, that was not set down in his writ. And all the recorded particulars were afterwards brought to him. Kelham, in his Domesday Book Illustrated, states that the ineom- parab...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217014380 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217014380 |
| Weight | 0.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.39 In |
| List Price | $10.82 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 168 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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