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What things did William the Conqueror find out in the Domesday book?
he found out which people had what things and how many of them so he knew how much to tax them
What effect did the Domesday book have on the government of England?
it was bad because no one liked it and many people were killed and slaughtered but people also loved it because it set some discipline to England.
Why did the surveyors of the Domesday Book revisit each town or county?
How many mills have you got and what is your manor called also how many meadows are there
Domesday book how many villages were visited?
13418 places were visited and the final record was produced in Winchester by a Monk
How many Domesday books were written?
There were only 2 domesday books written
What did the domesday book allow William to know or collect?
it allowed William collect alot of money and to know everything about everyone e.g. like how many things people own and how many things everyone had what was worth money .
What questions did the domesday book ask?
The most common question asked where how many mills have you got ? What is your manor called ? How many plougs have you got ? How many meadows are there ? how much land does the manor have ? how many villgers are there ? How many slaves are there ? How many free men are there ? How many acres of land are there that you own?
How many scribes wrote the actual domesday book?
A single scribe was the writer of the Doomsday Book. A second clerk checks the scribes work, added some note and further entries.
How many pages are there in the Domesday book?
Domesday Book is really two independent works. One, known as Little Domesday, covers Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. The other, Great Domesday, covers much of the remainder of England and parts of Wales, except for lands in the north that would later become Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland and County Durham. There are also no surveys of London, Winchester and some other towns. The omission of these two major cities is probably due to their size and complexity. Most of Cumberland and Westmorland are missing because they were not conquered until some time after the survey, and County Durham is lacking as the Bishop of Durham (William de St-Calais) had the exclusive right to tax Durham; parts of the north east of England were covered by the 1183 Boldon Book, which listed those areas liable to tax by the Bishop of Durham. The omission of the other counties has not been fully explained.
How many sheep were killed to make the domesday book?
Because the parchment used to make the pages out of the book were made out of sheepskin, they needed to slaughter sheep. The slaughtered over 100,00 sheep to make the pages of the book but no-one knows the exact answer.
What information does the Domesday Book contain?
The Domesday Book provides extensive records of landholders, their tenants, the amount of land they owned, how many people occupied the land (villagers, smallholders, free men, slaves, etc.), the amounts of woodland, meadow, animals, fish and ploughs on the land (if there were any) and other resources, any buildings present (churches, castles, mills, salthouses, etc.), and the whole purpose of the survey - the value of the land and its assets, before the Norman Conquest, after it, and at the time of Domesday. Some entries also chronicle disputes over who held land, some mention customary dues that had to be paid to the king, and entries for major towns include records of traders and number of houses. However, the Domesday Book does not provide an accurate indication of the population of England towards the end of the 11th century.
What was to be written in the Domesday book?
The Domesday Book provides extensive records of landholders, their tenants, the amount of land they owned, how many people occupied the land (villagers, smallholders, free men, slaves, etc.), the amounts of woodland, meadow, animals, fish and ploughs on the land (if there were any) and other resources, any buildings present (churches, castles, mills, salthouses, etc.), and the whole purpose of the survey - the value of the land and its assets, before the Norman Conquest, after it, and at the time of Domesday. Some entries also chronicle disputes over who held land, some mention customary dues that had to be paid to the king, and entries for major towns include records of traders and number of houses. However, the Domesday Book does not provide an accurate indication of the population of England towards the end of the 11th century. Find out why, and what the population may have been by Ellen,king Alfred school (12)
