Matching Pairs Doomsday Book - Sources TermsOnline version Key term matching - Doomsday Book by Simon Forrester 1 2 Asking men to find out information. 3 In Anglo-Saxon England, this was an amount of land considered sufficient to support a single peasant family. 4 A small piece of land under 1 meter. 5 Was given this land by King Edward. 6 An area of water where fish are caught so they can be sold. 7 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. 8 This means that William wanted to know everything in that people owned in England in the smallest detail. 9 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. 10 11 Who owned the land. 12 13 14 Money that has to be paid. 15 Written in the Doomsday book. 16 In Anglo-Saxon England, this was the equivalent of a present-day county. How the land was occupied Swine Archbishop, Abbots, Diocesan Bishops. Villeins Shire Ox Demesne Plough Held it in alod from King Edward. Set down in his writ. So very narrowly, indeed Fishery Commissioning them to find out Yard of land. Hide Dues